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 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews, 1912e: 93 (Flinders Island). Now Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 90–92 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 601739 , adult male, collected on Flinders Island , 40.00S , 148.00E ( USBGN , 1957b), Bass Strait, Australia , on 5 December 1908 , by S.A. White (no. 780). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12348) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. A single specimen was cataloged there. AMNH 601740 is probably a paratype . It is a male, collected on Flinders Island on the same date by A.H. Mattingley. Mattingley was leader of the party exploring islands in Bass Strait ( White, 1909 ), and Mathews may have obtained his specimen from S.A. White at the same time he acquired the holotype , although I did not find it listed in the Mathews catalog. There are five paratypes in SAMA collected by S.A. White on Flinders Island on 5 December 1908 (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.). Schodde (1982: 47) and Mayr (1986a: 397) synonymized samueli with M. c. cyaneus .