Megalurus alisteri oweni 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 : 16-17

Megalurus alisteri oweni Mathews

Megalurus alisteri oweni Mathews, 1912a: 345 (New South Wales).

Now Megalurus timoriensis alisteri Mathews, 1912 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 41, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597858 , unsexed, collected in New South Wales, Australia, in December 1889. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2161) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Only the single specimen was cataloged. The number ‘‘555’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label is the number given to this species in Mathews (1908a).

Mathews (1912a: 345) called attention to the fact that the name Megalurus galactotes Temminck had been erroneously applied to the Australian bird, referring instead to an African species. He supplied the name Megalurus alisteri oweni , a subspecies recognized by Watson et al. (1986a: 41).