Acanthiza uropygialis mellori 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 : 160

Acanthiza uropygialis mellori Mathews

Acanthiza uropygialis mellori Mathews, 1912a: 350 (South Australia, Eyre’s Peninsula).

Now Acanthiza uropygialis Gould, 1838 . See Mayr, 1986b: 439, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 206.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600898 , male?, collected at Murray Flats , 14 [mi?] west of Blanchetown, 34.21S, 139.38E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 30 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland (no. 72). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8938) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; he only cataloged the single specimen. In addition to Cleland’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 450, one of the two left figs., opp. p. 444, text p. 451), where it is confirmed as the type of mellori. However, this type locality is not on the Eyre Peninsula, and I cannot explain the discrepancy. Mathews (1922a: 451) described the female as like the male and from the same locality, but a second specimen from Murray Flats did not come to AMNH.

The coordinates of Murray Flats are given as 34.43S, 149.47E (USBGN, 1957b), but this must be a misprint for 34.43S, 139.47E.