Acanthiza pusilla samueli Mathews, 1913

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 : 152

Acanthiza pusilla samueli Mathews

Acanthiza pusilla samueli Mathews, 1913e: 76 (Myponga, South Australia).

Now Acanthiza pusilla pusilla (Shaw, 1790) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 198–200.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600490 , adult female, collected at Myponga , 35.24S, 138.27E ( USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, on 20 March 1912, by S.A. White (no. 636). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12820) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Despite having written his catalog number on the label of the holotype, Mathews did not give it in the original description. However, he did give the date of collection, and the above specimen is the only one from Myponga collected on that date. In addition to the field label and a Mathews Collection label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 448, bottom left fig., opp. p. 412, text p. 414), where it is confirmed as the type of samueli.

Three additional Myponga specimens were cataloged at the same time and are paratypes: AMNH 600491 (Mathews no. 12823), female, 21 March 1912 ; AMNH 600492 (12821), male, 23 March 1912 ; and AMNH 600493 (12822), male, 22 March 1912 .

Mayr (1986b: 434) and others have credited the description of A. pusilla to John White; however, animals other than mammals were described by George Shaw in White (1790; see Wood, 1931: 626).