Sphenura broadbenti whitei 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 : 123

Sphenura broadbenti whitei Mathews

Sphenura broadbenti whitei Mathews, 1912d: 79 (South Australia).

Now Dasyornis broadbenti broadbenti (McCoy, 1867) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 139.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598152 , adult male, collected at the Coorong , 36.00S, 139.30E ( USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, in April 1912, by S.A.White (no. 777). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12241) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It was the only White specimen he cataloged at that time. A second White specimen in AMNH was collected much later, in 1916. Another specimen from the Coorong, AMNH 598153, was collected on 15 September 1909. However, this specimen, obtained from Robert Dyott, was cataloged by Mathews (no. 14983) on 9 December 1912, after the name was published (on 28 June 1912). Also, Mathews (1923a: 164) later said that the name was based on ‘‘White specimens from the Coorong’’. There is a paratype in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.). Mathews (1913a: 231) specified the type locality of whitei as the Coorong, the collecting locality of the holotype.