Stipiturus malachurus intermedius Ashby, 1920

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 intermedius Ashby

Stipiturus malachurus intermedius Ashby, 1920: 303 (Mount Compass) .

Now Stipiturus malachurus intermedius Ashby, 1920 . See Schodde, 1982: 133, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 101–103.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 155588, adult female (tail missing), and AMNH 155589, adult female, collected at Mount Compass, 35.22S, 138.37E (USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, on 26 December 1919, by Edwin Ashby.

COMMENTS: Ashby did not designate a type, but both male and female were described and specimens were collected in December 1919 and February 1920 ( Ashby, 1920). These specimens were part of an exchange between Ashby and AMNH in 1920 or 1921 (catalog numbers AMNH 155402–155724). They had not previously been recognized as types. The number ‘‘610’’ on Ashby’s labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a).

Much of Ashby’s collection was destroyed by fire at his home in 1935 ( Whittell, 1954: 19), and the remainder is now in SAMA. According to Philippa Horton (personal commun.) there are no Ashby specimens there from Mt. Compass. However, there are four syntypes, collected by F.E. Parsons, who collected with Ashby and whose specimens Ashby included in his comparisons between S. malachurus from various localities. Two additional Parsons syntypes were sent by SAMA to USNM in July 1950.