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 Petroica multicolor samueli Mathews Petroica multicolor samueli Mathews, 1912e: 89 (Kangaroo Island). Now in a zone of intergradation between Petroica boodang campbelli and Petroica boodang boodang . See Mayr, 1986d: 563 , and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 385–386 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 607353 , adult male, collected at Karatta , 35.59S , 136.59E ( USBGN , 1957b), south coast, Kangaroo Island , South Australia , Australia , on 15 April 1912 , by S.A. White (no. 739). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12350) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears White’s field label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. This specimen has the restricted white frons of campbelli and, although the tail is in very worn condition, it appears to be closer to boodang in the amount of white in the tail; the wing measures 74 mm . Paratypes are: AMNH 607352 ( Mathews no. 12351), male, ‘‘ Hut in centre of Kangaroo Island’ ’, 12 April 1912 ; AMNH 607354 (12349), female, Karatta , 15 April 1912 ; AMNH 607355 (10215), male, Starvation Creek , 6 December 1911 ; AMNH 607356 (10217), female, Middle River , 1 December 1911 ; and AMNH 607357 (10216), unsexed immature, Middle River , 2 December 1911 . There are two paratypes in SAMA ( P. Horton and B. Blaylock , personal commun.) .