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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Megalurus alisteri oweni
Mathews
Megalurus alisteri oweni
Mathews, 1912a: 345
(
New South Wales
).
Now
Megalurus timoriensis alisteri
Mathews, 1912
. See
Watson et al., 1986a: 41
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 597858
, unsexed, collected in
New South Wales
,
Australia
, in
December 1889
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 2161) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description; it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Only the single specimen was cataloged. The number ‘‘555’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label is the number given to this species in
Mathews (1908a)
.
Mathews (1912a: 345)
called attention to the fact that the name
Megalurus galactotes
Temminck
had been erroneously applied to the Australian bird, referring instead to an African species. He supplied the name
Megalurus alisteri oweni
, a subspecies recognized by
Watson et al. (1986a: 41)
.