Milligania robustirostris liberia 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 : 162

Milligania robustirostris liberia Mathews

Milligania robustirostris liberia Mathews, 1916a: 61 ( Liberia [sic] Soak, West Australia).

Now Acanthiza robustirostris Milligan, 1903 . See Mayr, 1986b: 440, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 218.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600934 , unsexed adult, collected at Siberia (5 Liberia) Soak, 30.14S, 120.57E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 513), Western Australia, Australia, undated, by Edwin Ashby (no. 1224). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be from ‘‘Liberia’’ Soak; however, it is plainly written as Siberia Soak on Ashby’s label. It is the only specimen of robustirostris from this locality that came to AMNH, and I consider it the holotype. In addition to Ashby’s label, it bears Mathews Collection and type labels and a Rothschild type label.