Stipiturus malachurus richmondi 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 : 113

[ Stipiturus malachurus richmondi Mathews ]

Without designating a type, Mathews (1922e: 145) described this subspecies from the Richmond River district, noting ‘‘I have seen specimens supposed to come from the Richmond River district which have darker red heads, browner backs, longer, narrower tails and paler flanks …’’. The ‘‘red head’’ applies to males, and the only specimen in AMNH from Richmond River is a female that was from the Rothschild Collection. It is possible that Rothschild also had a male that he exchanged before the collection came to AMNH, or Mathews may have seen one elsewhere.