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
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Pyrrholaemus brunneus centra
Mathews
Pyrrholaemus brunneus centra
Mathews, 1922a: 489
(Central
Australia
).
Now
Pyrrholaemus brunneus
Gould, 1841
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 160
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 601180
(1736), adult male,
6 August 1914
, and
AMNH 601181
, female,
2 August 1914
, collected on the
Officer
River
, west of
Everard Ranges
;
AMNH 601182
(1733), adult male,
8 August 1914
, and
AMNH 601183
(1734), female, collected in the
Everard Ranges
, 11
August
, 1914
;
AMNH 601184
(1732), adult male, collected at
Flat Rock Hole
,
20 mi
east of
Musgrave Ranges
,
21 July 1914
;
AMNH 601185
(1737), 601186 (1738), and 601187 (1739), adult males, collected
10–15 mi
west of
Moorilyanna
(
5
Morrillanna
, as on label)
Well
,
14–28 July 1914
;
AMNH 601188
(1729) and 601189 (1731), adult males, collected at
Wantapella Swamp
,
9 July 1914
;
AMNH 601190
, adult female, collected
80 mi
west of
Oodnadatta
,
9 July 1914
;
and
AMNH 601191
(1730), adult female, collected
90 mi
west of
Todmorden
,
8 July 1914
.
All
were collected by
S.A. White
, with his field numbers given in parentheses.
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection
.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Mathews did not designate a
type
and gave the range as central
Australia
, based on a statement by S.A. White (which I have been unable to trace) that the Lower Murray River bird differed.
Mathews (1922a: 489)
wrote: ‘‘Of course the Lower Murray bird was the typical bird and I now name the Central Australian bird:
Pyrrholaemus brunneus centra
subsp. nov.
as being lighter above and the throat a deeper red’’.
AMNH 601191 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 453, opp. p. 479, lower left fig.), but no indication of subspecies or type status was given. Later,
Mathews (1930: 611)
restricted the type locality to the Musgrave Ranges,
26.10S
,
131.50E
(USBGN, 1957b), but it seems necessary to consider all of the S.A. White specimens from his 1914 trip into the Musgrave and Everard ranges as
syntypes
of
P. b. centra
. There are additional
syntypes
in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).
White (1915
a
, 1915b) reported on his expedition into northwestern
South Australia
.