Ephthianura lovensis Ashby, 1911

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 : 187

Ephthianura lovensis Ashby

Ephthianura lovensis Ashby, 1911a: 251 (Leigh’s Creek, S.A.).

Now Ashbyia lovensis (Ashby, 1911) . See Mayr, 1986b: 464, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 347.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 577656, adult male, and AMNH 577657, adult female, collected at Leigh Creek, 30.31S, 138.25E (Times Atlas), South Australia, 11 November 1910 and 12 December 1910, respectively, by R.J.B. Love for Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (nos. 11700 and 11699, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Ashby stated that he had a male and two females, with data as above. The two AMNH specimens are marked ‘‘Type’’ in Ashby’s hand and bear Mathews and Rothschild type labels in addition to Ashby’s labels. These are the only two specimens that Mathews acquired from Ashby. The other syntype is not in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.) or in AMNH and may have perished when Ashby’s home burned ( Whittell, 1954: 19).