Leggeornis lamberti hartogi 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 : 110

Leggeornis lamberti hartogi Mathews

Leggeornis lamberti hartogi Mathews, 1918: 24 (Dirk Hartog Island, off the coast of Western Australia).

Now Malurus lamberti assimilis North, 1901 . See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 85–87.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602186 , adult male collected on Dirk Hartog Island , 25.50S, 113.03E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 November 1916, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not make entries in his catalog after 1914. In his original description, he did not say how many specimens of this form he had, but noted that the type was a male collected on 1 November 1916 on Dirk Hartog Island by Tom Carter. AMNH 602186 is the only such specimen from the Mathews Collection. It is marked ‘‘ Malurus hartogi Type’’ in Mathews’ hand. It does not bear a Mathews or a Rothschild type label and had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.

Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 602187– 602198, all from Dirk Hartog Island. Carter and Mathews (1917: 592–593) listed these birds as Leggeornis lamberti occidentalis , but did not give information on the size of the series.