Gouldaeornis gouldiae westra Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 113-114

Gouldaeornis gouldiae westra Mathews

Gouldaeornis gouldiae westra Mathews 1923: 41 (Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Erythrura gouldiae (Gould, 1844) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 367; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 767; Dickinson, 2003: 734; and Payne, 2010: 345.

SYNTYPES: Males: AMNH 721727 (Mathews no. 5714), 25 April, AMNH 721728 (5708), 29 April, AMNH 721729 (5711), 25 April, AMNH 721730 (5712), 3 May, AMNH 721731 (5716), 3 May, AMNH 721732 (5707), 9 May, AMNH 721733 (5710), 10 June, AMNH 721734 (5715), 10 June, AMNH 721735 (5709), 10 June, AMNH 721736 (5713), 15 June, AMNH 721737 (5718), 16 June, AMNH 721738 (5717), 16 June, AMNH 721739 (6220), 22 June ; females, AMNH 721740 (6222), 22 June, AMNH 721741 (6221), 22 June, AMNH 721742 (5719), 10 June, AMNH 721743 (5720), 10 June, AMNH 721744 (5721), 10 December 1909, all collected in Napier Broome Bay , 14.02S, 126.37E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, by G.F. Hill in 1910 (except the last, dated 1909). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: This name was another published in 1923, in the rush to have new taxa in print prior to publication of volume 12 of ‘‘Birds of Australia’’ ( Mathews 1925 –1927). In the original description, the type was said to be from Napier Broome Bay, with the head coloration (either red or black) more pronounced and the back a deeper shade of green than the nominate. The above 18 specimens had not previously been included with the types, but they must be considered syntypes of westra as none of them bears any indication that it was the intended type. Two of them, AMNH 721727 (a red-headed male) and AMNH 721744 (a black-headed female) bear Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ labels and they are figured in Mathews (1926: 238–244, pl. 573, opp. p. 238), but while both of them are referred to in the text as figured, neither is said to be the type. AMNH 721742 was described as ‘‘Young’’ (p. 240), and its label is marked ‘‘descr.’’ by Mathews.