Amytornis striatus 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 : 121-122

Amytornis striatus oweni Mathews

Amytornis striatus oweni Mathews, 1911a: 48 (West Australia: Bore Well, East Murchison).

Now Amytornis striatus striatus (Gould, 1840) . See Schodde, 1982: 160, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 113–114.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598116 , adult male, collected at Borewell (5 Bore Well), East Murchison, Western Australia, Australia, on 7 September 1909, by F.L. Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3933) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the type, which he also noted on his collection and type labels, and the type locality. In his catalog, Mathews listed eight males and one female from Borewell (including the holotype), all collected in August and September 1909. There are, in fact, 12 such specimens in AMNH that had been in the Mathews Collection, but it proved impossible to match the dates recorded by Mathews with the dates on Whitlock’s labels. The 11 specimens that are probable paratypes are AMNH 265500 (exchanged to AMNH by Rothschild in 1928) and AMNH 598110–598115 and 598117–598120.

The holotype also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for the male in Mathews (1923a: pl. 470, upper middle fig., opp. p. 193, text p. 201), where it is confirmed as the type of oweni. Probable paratype 598120, female, collected 12 September 1909 (copied incorrectly on the Rothschild label as 13 September 1909), also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label and is the model for the female in the above plate, upper right figure.

Whitlock (1910: 185) described Borewell as 30 mi from Wiluna, 26.37S, 120.12E (Times Atlas).