Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Acanthiza pusilla samueli
Mathews
Acanthiza pusilla samueli
Mathews, 1913e: 76
(Myponga,
South Australia
).
Now
Acanthiza pusilla pusilla
(Shaw, 1790)
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 198–200
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 600490
, adult female, collected at
Myponga
,
35.24S
,
138.27E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
20 March 1912
, by
S.A. White
(no. 636).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 12820) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Despite having written his catalog number on the label of the
holotype
, Mathews did not give it in the original description. However, he did give the date of collection, and the above specimen is the only one from Myponga collected on that date. In addition to the field label and a Mathews Collection label, the
holotype
bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 448, bottom left fig., opp. p. 412, text p. 414), where it is confirmed as the type of
samueli
.
Three additional Myponga specimens were cataloged at the same time and are
paratypes
:
AMNH 600491
(Mathews no. 12823), female,
21 March 1912
;
AMNH 600492
(12821), male,
23 March 1912
;
and
AMNH 600493
(12822), male,
22 March 1912
.
Mayr (1986b: 434)
and others have credited the description of
A. pusilla
to John White; however, animals other than mammals were described by George Shaw
in
White (1790; see
Wood, 1931: 626
).