Milligania robustirostris moorilyanna 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 moorilyanna Mathews

Milligania robustirostris moorilyanna Mathews, 1916c: 90 (Moorilyanna Well, Everard Ranges, Central Australia).

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

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 600928 , adult female, collected 10 mi west of Moorilyanna Well

[Moorilyanna Hill, 26.50S, 133.0 1E, (USBGN, 1957b)], on 28 July 1914, by S.A. White (no. 1608). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from Moorilyanna Well, Everard Ranges, central Australia. AMNH 600928 bears, in addition to White’s label marked ‘‘ moorilyanna Type’’ in Mathews’ hand, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl 451, upper fig., opp. p. 455, text p. 461). On p. 461 the figured bird is said to be the type of moorilyanna, thus designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are AMNH 600925–600927, 600929, and 600930. All of these specimens and the lectotype of moorilyanna Mathews are also the holotype and paratypes of Acanthiza marianae S.A. White (see above). Mathews’ (1922a: 462) statement that ‘‘later I named the Everard Range form ignorant of the fact that Captain White had already done so’’ is difficult to accept, given that White had written ‘‘Type collected & described by S.A. White’’ on his label of the above holotype of marianae and had named it for Mrs. Mathews!