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 2008 313 1 287 journal article 0003-0090 Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews, 1912a: 342 (Mannam, South Australia ) Now Acrocephalus australis australis (Gould, 1838) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 68 , and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 698–699 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 594512 , adult male, collected at Mannum ( 5 Mannam), 34.50S , 139.20E (Times Atlas), South Australia , Australia , on 21 December 1907 , by Edwin Ashby (no. 159). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2138) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype , which bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The range of the form was given as Victoria and South Australia . There are two Mathews specimens, collected before the January 1912 publication date of mellori , that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and that qualify as paratypes : AMNH 594510 (Mathews no. 4897), male nestling, and AMNH 594511 (4898), female nestling, Caulfield, Victoria , 24 November 1909 , cataloged by Mathews on 6 July 1909 . AMNH 594517 (11637), male, Murray Bridge, South Australia , 9 September 1910 , is not a paratype , as it was not cataloged until 4 April 1912 , indicating that it was not received until after publication of the name. Mathews (1930: 590) listed mellori as a synonym of australis .