Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 29

Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews

Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews, 1912a: 342 (Mannam, South Australia)

Now Acrocephalus australis australis (Gould, 1838) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 68, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 698–699.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594512 , adult male, collected at Mannum (5 Mannam), 34.50S, 139.20E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 21 December 1907, by Edwin Ashby (no. 159). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2138) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype, which bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The range of the form was given as Victoria and South Australia. There are two Mathews specimens, collected before the January 1912 publication date of mellori, that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and that qualify as paratypes: AMNH 594510 (Mathews no. 4897), male nestling, and AMNH 594511 (4898), female nestling, Caulfield, Victoria, 24 November 1909, cataloged by Mathews on 6 July 1909. AMNH 594517 (11637), male, Murray Bridge, South Australia, 9 September 1910, is not a paratype, as it was not cataloged until 4 April 1912, indicating that it was not received until after publication of the name. Mathews (1930: 590) listed mellori as a synonym of australis .