Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Remizidae
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Lecroy, Mary
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Climacteris rufa orientalis
Mathews
Climacteris rufa orientalis
Mathews, 1912a: 382
(
South Australia
).
Now
Climacteris rufus
Gould, 1841
.
See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 76
, and
Noske,2007b:659–660
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 684990
, adult male, collected in
South Australia
, in
January 1894
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 2800) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. It bears Rothschild and Mathews type labels and a Mathews collection label, each marked with the catalog number. The collection label is also marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews;
the number ‘‘703’’ on this label refers to the number of this species in
Mathews (1908)
.
Only
one additional
Mathews
specimen from
South Australia
, collected before the publication of
orientalis
, came to
AMNH
:
paratype
,
AMNH 684991
(Mathews no. 2804), female, collected in
South Australia
in
January 1894
.
The original label is not present on either of these specimens. According to Richard Schodde (personal commun.), these specimens almost certainly came from the northern Eyre Peninsula (Gawler Range), the only area in the range of this species that was accessible to ornithological exploration at the time.