Stipiturus malachurus tregellasi 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 tregellasi Mathews

Stipiturus malachurus tregellasi Mathews, 1912c: 45 (Victoria (Frankston)).

Now Stipiturus malachurus malachurus (Shaw, 1798) . See Schodde, 1982: 133, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 101–103.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602921 , adult male, collected at Frankston , 38.08S, 145.07E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 17 May 1909, by L.G. Chandler. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11148) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; in his catalog, the specimen was credited to Chandler. It bears a yellow ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922e: pl. 465, lower left-hand fig., opp. p. 131, text p. 133), where it is confirmed as the type of tregellasi. AMNH 602922 (Mathews no. 8556), male from Frankston, collected by Tregellas on 17 January 1911, is a paratype. Mathews number 11147 is a female specimen collected by Tregellas on 25 February 1911. This specimen, also a paratype, did not come to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 602923–602925 , males collected in April and December 1908 by Chandler at Frankston, are possible paratypes, but I did not find them listed in Mathews’ catalog to establish their availability prior to the description of tregellasi .