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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Rhipidura flabellifera whitei
Mathews
Rhipidura flabellifera whitei
Mathews, 1912a: 318
(
South Australia
).
Now
Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri
Mathews, 1911
. See
Ford, 1981b
,
Watson and Mayr, 1986: 545
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 481–483
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 650236
, unsexed adult, collected at
Grange
,
34.54S
,
138.29E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
South Australia
,
Australia
, in
March 1897
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 1783) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. In addition to the Mathews Collection label, marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. AMNH 650232 (Mathews no. 9648) collected at Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula, on
24 August 1911
and cataloged
7 November 1911
is a
paratype
. AMNH 650230 (Mathews no. 11650), collected at Outer Harbor (cataloged by Mathews as ‘‘Adelaide’’) on
17 April 1911
, was not cataloged by Mathews until
11 April 1912
and is not considered a
paratype
, as the name was published on
31 January 1912
.
Mathews (1913a: 184)
specified the type locality of
whitei
as Grange, a suburb of Adelaide and the collecting locality of his
holotype
.