Chlamydera maculata macdonaldi [sic] Mathews

Chlamydera maculata macdonaldi [sic] Mathews, 1913b: 78 (McDonald Ranges, Central Australia).

Now Chlamydera guttata guttata Gould, 1862 . See Mathews, 1926: 332; Hartert, 1929a: 57; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 8–10; Mayr, 1962c: 180; Gilliard, 1969: 361–363; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 632–633; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 417– 418; 2009a: 403.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679148, unsexed, collected in the Macdonnell Ranges (spelled McDonald Ranges on the original label), 23.45S, 133.20E (USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, undated, from the Edwin Ashby Collection (no. 280). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3657) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews apparently had the single specimen; it bears Ashby’s label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ with his catalog number 3657 (which was not otherwise mentioned), and a Rothschild type label. Mathews noted in the description that it was darker and had a much smaller bill than subguttata; Hartert (1929a: 57) dismissed it as ‘‘Bad specimen, bill half decayed, therefore appearing small.’’

A female obtained by S.A. White at Jay Water Hole in the Macdonnell Ranges on 3 September 1913 was not received by Mathews prior to his description of macdonaldi. It is now AMNH 679149 and bears a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label. It is the second female described by Mathews (1926: pl. 585, top fig., opp. p. 324; text p. 324) and the ‘‘Figured’’ label is so annotated by Hartert. It has no nomenclatural standing.