Geobasileus chrysorrhous ferdinandi 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 : 159

Geobasileus chrysorrhous ferdinandi Mathews

Geobasileus chrysorrhous ferdinandi Mathews, 1916c: 90 (Glen Ferdinand, Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia).

Now Acanthiza chrysorrhoa normantoni (Mathews, 1913) . See Mayr, 1986b: 438, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 212–213.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 601112 , adult male, collected at Glen Ferdinand, 26.19S, 132.06E ( USBGN, 1957b), Musgrave Ranges , South Australia, on 19 July 1914, by S.A. White (no. 1655). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type of ferdinandi was from Glen Ferdinand. There are two AMNH specimens collected there on 19 July 1914 by White. AMNH 601112 bears, in addition to White’s field label marked ‘‘ferdinandi Type’’ in Mathews’ hand, Rothschild Collection and type labels (the name and reference added in pencil in a hand unknown), as well as a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 452, bottom left, opp. p. 464, text p. 466), where the figured bird is said to be the type of ferdinandi, thus designating it the lectotype. The second specimen, AMNH 601113, adult female, S.A. White (no. 1654), is a paralectotype. Mathews did not catalog these birds. There are four paralectotypes in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

Mayr (1986b: 438) recognized A. c. ferdinandi, but Schodde and Mason (1999: 212– 213) included the Musgrave Range and central Australian populations within the range of A. c. normantoni .

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