Geobasileus australis North

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

Geobasileus australis North

Geobasileus australis North, 1904: 287 (‘‘South Australia’’).

Now Acanthiza reguloides australis ( North, 1904) . See Mayr, 1986b: 432, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 207–208.

Syntype: AMNH 600739, adult male, collected at Woodside, 34.58S, 138.52E (USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, on 16 June 1900, by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2230) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: North did not designate a type in the original description but said that he had borrowed specimens from SAMA as well as three specimens from Edwin Ashby, which had been collected at Woodside, Callington, and on the Upper Sturt River. The above specimen bears both a Mathews and a Rothschild type label and is apparently the Woodside specimen mentioned by North. In addition to Ashby’s original label, it bears a second label, stamped with Ashby’s name, on which is written in a hand unknown ‘‘ A. reguloides /base of tail feathers rufous/dark race’’. The number ‘‘1’’ also appears in red. There are two syntypes in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

Mayr (1986b: 432) synonymized this form with A. r. reguloides .