Aphelocephala castaneiventris whitei 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 : 183

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777797
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9EA9-10B1-FF49-48B2080DFEDA
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphelocephala castaneiventris whitei Mathews
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Aphelocephala castaneiventris whitei Mathews, 1914b: 100 (Jay Waterhole, MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia).

Now Aphelocephala leucopsis leucopsis (Gould, 1841) View in CoL . See Mayr, 1986b: 458, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 219–220.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683484 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Jay Waterhole , MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia, on 3 September 1913, by S.A. White (no. 1325). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not catalog this specimen but gave Jay Waterhole as the type locality. AMNH 683484 is the only specimen in AMNH from that locality, and White’s label is marked by Mathews: ‘‘ Type of A. castaneiventr[is] whitei (1914) A.A.R. vol. ii, p. 100’’. It also bears a Rothschild type label.

By the time this specimen was collected, Mathews was no longer cataloging many of his specimens. However , White (1914: 434) noted that this form was ‘‘ Distributed very generally over the central regions. We collected specimens soon after leaving the head of the [rail] line and up to the MacDonnell Ranges. ’’ Mathews gave the range of whitei as ‘‘ Central Australia’ ’, and five additional Mathews specimens collected by White on this expedition are considered paratypes: AMNH 683485 About AMNH , Charlotte Waters , 30 September 1913 ; AMNH 683486 About AMNH , east of Deep Well , 22 September 1913 ; AMNH 683487 About AMNH , Finke River, 21 August 1913 ; AMNH 683488 About AMNH , Crown Point , 16 August 1913 ; and AMNH 683489 About AMNH , Xmas Creek, 12 August 1913. There is one paratype in SAMA, collected on Ellery Creek , 19 September 1913 (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .

White (1914: 413) said that Jay Waterhole was on Jay Creek, 23.52S, 133.27E (USBGN, 1957b), west of Simpson Gap in the MacDonnell Ranges. Mayr (1986b: 458) recognized whitei , but Schodde and Mason (1999: 220) considered it a synonym of nominate leucopsis .