Acanthiza uropygialis augusta 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 augusta Mathews

Acanthiza uropygialis augusta Mathews, 1912a: 350 (Port Augusta).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600891 , adult male, collected on the western slopes, Flinders Range , 31.25S, 138.45E ( USBGN, 1957b), northeast of Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia, on 4 October 1911, by S.A. White (no. 352). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9980) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to White’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are three paratypes: AMNH 600892 (Mathews no. 9981), male, collected on the western slopes, Flinders Range , northeast of Port Augusta, on 11 October 1911 ; and AMNH 600893 (9982), male, 4 October 1911 and AMNH 600894 (9983), male, 5 October 1911, both from northwest of Port Augusta. White (1913) reported on this expedition. Two additional specimens were collected by White southwest of Port Augusta after the publication of the name .