Acanthiza marianae

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 : 161-162

Acanthiza marianae S.A. White

Acanthiza marianae S.A. White, 1915c: 45 (between Moorelyanna Native Well and the Everard Ranges in the North-west of South Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600925 , adult male, collected between Moorilyanna (5 Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill, 26.50S, 133.01E ( USBGN, 1957b)] and the Everard Ranges, 27.05S, 132.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, on 1 August 1914, by S.A. White (no. 1660). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, White said the type was ‘‘A male collected between Moorelyanna Native Well and the Everard Ranges … on August 1st, 1914 ’’. AMNH 600925 is the only S.A. White specimen in AMNH with the correct data and it is marked ‘‘Type collected & described by S.A. White’’ in White’s hand on his original label. Additionally, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The number of specimens in the type series was not given, with White (1915c: 45) only noting that the habitat was dense mulga scrubs in the vicinity of the Everard Ranges. Five additional specimens, AMNH 600026–600930, and 10 specimens in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.), all from the vicinity of Moorilyanna Well and collected by S.A. White in July and August 1914, are paratypes. One male in SAMA has the same data as AMNH 600925, but this specimen has no notation indicating that it has type status (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

AMNH 600928 is also the lectotype of Milligania robustirostris moorilyanna Mathews (see below). None of the AMNH specimens appears in Mathews’ catalog.