Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi Mathews, 1913

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

Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi Mathews

Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi Mathews, 1913c: 9 (Augustus Downs, Leichhardt River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland).

Now Malurus coronatus macgillivrayi Mathews, 1913 . See Schodde, 1982: 67, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 96.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602736 , adult male, collected on Augustus Downs , 18.33S, 139.53E ( Storr, 1984: 179), Leichardt River, Queensland, Australia, on 24 June 1910, by William McLennan for W.D.K. Macgillivray. From the Mathews Collection (no. 17239) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not give his catalog number of the type in the original description, but the above number is written on both the Mathews and Rothschild type labels of AMNH 602736; the description is of an adult male. AMNH 602737, immature male, collected at Caloola, on the Leichhardt River, on 14 June 1910, and cataloged as Mathews number 17240, is a paratype. These are the only two specimens of macgillivrayi that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Both specimens bear a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that they were models for figures in Mathews (1922e: pl. 464, lower pair of figs., opp. p. 116, text p. 126), where the adult male is confirmed as the type of macgillivrayi .

For information on the collecting activities of McLennan and Macgillivray, see Macgillivray (1914) and Mathews (1919a, 1927b).