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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Petroica multicolor frontalis
Mathews
Petroica multicolor frontalis
Mathews, 1912a: 303
(
Victoria
).
Now
Petroica boodang boodang
(Lesson, 1838)
. See
Mayr, 1986d: 563
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 385–386
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 607276
, adult male, collected at
Parwan
,
Victoria
,
Australia
, on
25 April 1906
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 1604) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as
Victoria
,
Tasmania
, and
South Australia
. In addition to the original field label, the
holotype
also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1920a
: pl. 435, middle left fig., opp. p. 82, text p. 83), although it is not there said to be the type.
The
following specimens are
paratypes
:
Tasmania
,
AMNH 607270
(
Mathews
no. 4579), 607273 (9353)
;
Victoria
,
AMNH 607278
(
Mathews
no. 10093), 607285 (5086), 607286 (10095), 607288 (8116), 607289 (8117), 607290 (10094), 607291 (5087), 607293 (8650), 607294 (9073), 607304 (1610), 607305 (1602), 607306 (5085), 607307 (8114), 607308 (6251), 607309 (10554), 607310 (10553), 607312 and 607313 (8118), and 607319 (10341)
;
South Australia
,
AMNH 607320
(
Mathews
no. 1601), 607321 (1609), 607344 (1606), 607345 (1607), 607346 (9693), 607347 (9694), and 607348 (9695).
The
following specimens were collected before the publication of the name, but I did not find them in
Mathews’
catalog and do not consider them
paratypes
:
AMNH 607295
from
Ringwood
;
AMNH 607299– 607303
from
Fern-Tree Gully
and
Mitcham
;
AMNH 607311
from
Bayswater
, all in
Victoria
;
and
AMNH 607343
from
Adelaide
,
South Australia
.
Two specimens
listed in
Mathews’
catalog did not come to
AMNH
and, if found, are
paratypes
: number 1608 with no data and number 8115, female, collected at
Bayswater
on
19 November 1910
.
Mathews (1913a: 167)
specified the type locality of
frontalis
as
Parwan
, the collecting locality of his
holotype
.
Parwan
is ca.
2 mi
east of Bacchus Marsh,
38.45S
,
144.30E
(Times Atlas).
Mayr (1986d: 563)
considered
boodang
a subspecies of the widespread species
Petroica multicolor
(Gmelin)
;
Schodde and Mason (1999: 388)
proposed separating the Australian forms in the separate species,
Petroica boodang
(Lesson)
.