Acanthiza reguloides connectens 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 : 148-149

Acanthiza reguloides connectens Mathews

Acanthiza reguloides connectens Mathews, 1912a: 352 (Victoria).

Now Acanthiza reguloides reguloides Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 . See Mayr, 1986b: 432, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 207–208.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600717 , adult male, collected at Ringwood , 37.51S, 145.13E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 27 May 1911, by T.H. Tregellas (no. 575). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9085) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype, the single specimen that he cataloged at that time. In addition to Tregellas’ label, the specimen bears a Mathews type label and a Mathews Collection label, with the number ‘‘575’’ on this label referring to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). Also present is a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 452, opp. p. 464, text p. 475), where it is confirmed as the type of connectens.

A second specimen from Ringwood, collected by Tregellas, was in Mathews’ hand when this description was published and is a paratype: AMNH 600718 (Mathews no. 5096), male, collected 7 September 1909.

Mathews (1913a: 219) specified the type locality as Ringwood, the collecting locality of the holotype.