Malurus lamberti occidentalis 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 : 109-110

Malurus lamberti occidentalis Mathews

Malurus lamberti occidentalis Mathews, 1912a: 360 (Lake Way, West Australia).

Now Malurus lamberti assimilis North, 1901 . See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 86.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602169 , adult male, collected at Lake Way , 26.50S, 120.25E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509), East Murchison, Western Australia, Australia, on 7 July 1909, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2318) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It is the only Lake Way specimen cataloged at that place and the only one in AMNH. The specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922e: pl. 462, lower right fig., opp. p. 95, text p. 96), where it is confirmed as the type of Malurus lamberti occidentalis . The range of this form was given as ‘‘ West Australia’ ’ and there are four probable paratypes, all collected by Whitlock: AMNH 602170 (Matthews no. 2319), immature male, and AMNH 602171 (2320), female, Borewell, East Murchison, 2 August 1909 ; and AMNH 602172 and 602173 (3992 and 3993), males, East Murchison , 28 September 1909. Two additional specimens are possible paratypes, AMNH 602174 and 602175, collected by Whitlock in the East Murchison in October and November 1909 ; however, I could not find these specimens in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into his possession.

Whitlock (1910) published on his expedition to the East Murchison, Western Australia, detailing his itinerary and collecting localities.