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
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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.)
.