Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews, 1912

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 : 114

Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews

Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews, 1912a: 363 (Tasmania).

Now Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde, 1982: 133, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 101–103.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602975 , adult male, collected in Tasmania, Australia, by R.H.W. Leach. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4582) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The specimen bears a Mathews type label, but no Rothschild type label. An AMNH type label has been added. There is one paratype: AMNH 602976 (Mathews no. 4581), female, collected in Tasmania also by Leach, according to the Mathews catalog. These are the only two specimens of littleri that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Whittell (1954: 417) identified the collector as Richard H.W. Leach who made a collecting trip to Tasmania in 1863 and gave specimens to Mathews.