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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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Acanthiza pusilla bunya
Mathews
Acanthiza pusilla bunya
Mathews, 1920d: 105
(Bunya Mts.,
Queensland
).
Now considered an intergrade between
A. p. dawsonensis
and
A. p.
pusilla
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 198–200
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 600486
, unsexed, collected in the
Bunya Mountains
,
26.52S
,
151.35E
(
Storr, 1984: 180
),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
3 October 1919
, by
J.B. Cleland
(no. 493).
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was collected by Dr. Cleland in the Bunya Mountains,
Queensland
, on
3 October 1919
. Two AMNH specimens bear those data and are marked ‘‘Type’’ of
bunya
in what appears to be Mathews’ hand. The unsexed specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 448, middle left fig., opp. p. 412, text p. 414), where on p. 414 Mathews stated that the figured bird, listed as an ‘‘Adult’’, was the type of
bunya
, thus designating it the
lectotype
.
An adult male,
AMNH 600485
, collected at the same time by Cleland (no. 492) bears an
AMNH
type label written by Mayr
; it is, however, a
paralectotype
. Because it has been included in the type collection, it remains there with a label added to explain its status. A note has also been added to the general collection to indicate its whereabouts.
Mayr (1986b: 434)
recognized
bunya
and considered
dawsonensis
a synonym.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 198–200)
recognized
dawsonensis
and considered specimens from the Bunya Mountains area to be intergrades. There is no material of this species from
Queensland
in AMNH, other than specimens from the Bunya Mountains.