Origma solitaria pallida 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 : 124

Origma solitaria pallida Mathews

Origma solitaria pallida Mathews, 1916a: 60 (Blue Mountains, New South Wales).

Now Origma solitaria (Lewin, 1808) . See Mayr, 1986b: 411, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 144.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 598448 and 598449 (Mathews nos. 7601 and 7602), males, AMNH 598450 and 598451 (7599, 7600), females, and AMNH 598452 (7598), unsexed, all collected at Lithgow, in July 1899, by T. Thorpe ; AMNH 598453 , male, and AMNH 598454 , female, collected in May 1915, by S. Rohu ; and AMNH 598455 (3767), female, collected in June 1903, from the Blue Mountains , 33.30S, 150.15E ( USBGN, 1957b), New South Wales, Australia. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: Mathews minimal original description said only that the type was from the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, and was lighter than Origma solitaria solitaria . AMNH 598453 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was figured in Mathews (1922a: pl. 446, opp. p. 390, text p. 397), but no information is given there on its type status. However, Mathews (1922a: 400) noted that he no longer recognized his subspecies pallida . There is no indication on any of the above specimens, all in Mathews’ hand before 1916, as to which one was his type, and therefore there seems to be no alternative but to consider all eight of them syntypes.