Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews

Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews, 1913b: 78 (Black Spur, Victoria).

Now Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews, 1913. See Amadon, 1951: 25–27; 1962b: 170; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 551–554; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 340–341.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673622, female, collected at Black Spur, Victoria, Australia, on 8 May 1901, from the Edwin Ashby Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3728) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave the type locality and the date of collection; his collection label is marked ‘‘Type’’ by him and his catalog number is written on it but was not given in the description. No other specimens or localities were mentioned.

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