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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae
Mathews
Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae
Mathews, 1914b: 99
(Macarthur
River
,
Gulf
of Carpentaria,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Amytornis dorotheae
(Mathews, 1914)
. See
Schodde, 1982: 165
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 110
.
SYNTYPES
: AMNH 598138 and 598139, adult males, collected at McArthur Station,
16.27S
,
136.06E
(
Storr, 1977: 110
), McArthur (
5
Macarthur) River,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
24 September 1913
, by H.G. Barnard (nos. 113 and 114) from the H.L. White Collection. From the Mathews Collection (nos. 18427 and 18428, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews gave only the locality and date of collection of the type in the original description. One of the
two specimens
in AMNH bears a Mathews type label on which his catalog number 18427 is written, but this number was not given in the description, and his specimen number 18428 bears the same locality and date. Neither is marked ‘‘type’’ in his catalog. Only one set of measurements was given, but these were not said to apply to the type. AMNH 598139 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the specimen illustrated in
Mathews (1923a
: pl. 472, top fig., opp. p. 209). Even though Mathews does say that the figured bird is an adult male, he does not say that it is the type of
dorotheae
. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the above
two specimens
syntypes
of
Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae
. A third
syntype
is housed in MV (HLW no. 2739, W. Longmore, personal commun.).
When
Mathews (1923a: 209)
covered this species in
Birds of
Australia
, he treated both
Magnamytis dorotheae
and ‘‘
Magnamytis
’’
woodwardi
as full species (see below).