Acanthiza morgani 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 : 151

[ Acanthiza morgani Mathews ]

Acanthiza morgani was proposed by Mathews (1911d: 97) as a new name for Acanthiza tenuirostris Zietz (1900: 112) , preoccupied by Acanthiza tenuirostris Lafresnaye, 1842 . Zietz based his name on ‘‘ Two specimens … collected by R.M. Hawker, Esq., at Leigh Creek, in August, 1895’’. These syntypes are in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.) and remain the types of the replacement name. Therefore, AMNH 600802, collected by Edwin Ashby at Leighs Creek on 2 August 1910, has no type status; it is merely a topotype. No mention of a type was made when Mathews proposed the replacement name, but the Ashby specimen bears both Mathews and Rothschld type labels and has been in the AMNH type collection since the Rothschild Collection came to New York. It was incorrectly listed as the type of morgani by Mayr and Serventy (1938: 256), probably based on the presence of the type labels. A label has been added to this specimen explaining its status and it remains with the types. A card has also been added to the general collection tray to note its whereabouts.