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
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Megalurus gramineus wilsoni
Mathews
Megalurus gramineus wilsoni
Mathews, 1912a: 344
(
Victoria
).
Now
Megalurus gramineus goulburni
Mathews, 1912
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 703–704
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 597918
, adult female, collected at
Western Port
,
38.22S
.
145.20E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
Victoria
,
Australia
, on
10 March 1909
, by
Thomas H. Tregellas
(no. 183).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5099) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. A single Tregallas specimen of this species was cataloged on
10 September 1910
.
AMNH 597919
, a female collected at
Westernport
on the same date, is probably a
paratype
, although I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog
;
it was exchanged by
AMNH
to the
FMNH
in the 1960s.
AMNH 597917
, immature male, collected at Somerville,
Victoria
, on
10 April 1909
by
L.G. Chandler
was cataloged by
Mathews
as number 4955 and is a
paratype
of
M. g. wilsoni
. Its Mathews collection label is marked ‘‘Type’’ and it bears a blank Rothschild type label upon which has been pencilled ‘‘Unpublished’’ and ‘‘
Not
a type’’ in a hand unknown. It is initialed, but I am unsure of the letters. I, too, have found no indication that it was ever designated as a type
.
In addition to the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the
holotype
bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label. It was illustrated in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 444, opp. p. 375, text pp. 376– 377), where it is confirmed as the type of
wilsoni
.
Mathews (1913a: 211)
specified the type locality of
wilsoni
as Western Port, the collecting locality of the
holotype
.
Watson et al. (1986a: 43)
included
wilsoni a
s a synonym of
M. gramineus gramineus
, but
Schodde and Mason (1999: 703)
have included
Victoria
within the range of
M. gramineus goulburni
.