Amytis varia Carter

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 : 115

Amytis varia Carter

Amytis varia Carter, 1908: 86 (Broome Hill) .

Now Amytornis textilis textilis (Dumont, 1824) . See Schodde, 1982: 185, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 116–117.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598061 , female?, collected at Broomehill (5 Broome Hill), 1100 ft, 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, Australia, on 21 June 1908, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2383) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Carter, in his original description, noted that he had a single specimen. AMNH 598061 bears a Mathews type label, and Carter’s label is marked ‘‘Type’’. The number ‘‘618’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of A. textilis in Mathews (1908a). This holotype bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1923a: pl. 467, middle fig., opp. p. 172, text p. 174), where it is confirmed as the type of Amytis varia .

A second specimen, AMNH 598060, was collected by Carter in October 1908, after the description had been published in September.

Carter (1909: 95) noted that his Amytis varia was considered a synonym of ‘‘ Amytis macrura ’’ (5 Amytis macrourus Gould, 1847 , a synonym of Amytornis textilis textilis (Dumont, 1824)) .