Malurus amabilis rogersi 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 : 108

Malurus amabilis rogersi Mathews

Malurus amabilis rogersi Mathews, 1912a: 361 (North-West Australia (Napier Broome Bay)).

Now Malurus lamberti rogersi Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 85.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602322 , adult male, collected at the Pago Mission (5 Mission

Station, as on label), 14.10S, 126.42E (Times Atlas), Napier Broome Bay, northwestern Western Australia, Australia, on 13 March 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 352). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5695) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In his catalog, he originally entered, in addition to the holotype, numbers 5685–5694 as specimens from Napier Broome Bay ; however, he later reused the number 5694 for a different species. Apparently having traded away one of his specimens of Malurus , he considered the number again available for use! Later he added two more Hill specimens, numbers 6228 and 6229, all cataloged before the January 1912 publication date of the name. All 12 of these specimens are paratypes, and 11 are present in the AMNH collection: AMNH 602321 and 602323–602332. It is not known with whom Mathews traded the twelfth specimen .

The holotype and AMNH 602331, female, bear yellow ‘‘Figured’’ labels, indicating that they were the models for Mathews (1922e: pl. 463, bottom figs., opp. p. 106, text p. 107). The male is confirmed there as the type of rogersi, and the female is said to have been collected at Napier Broome Bay on 30 June 1910, which data match those of AMNH 602331.