Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus
Mathews
Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus
Mathews, 1912a: 420
(Swan Island,
Victoria
). Now
Acanthagenys rufogularis
Gould, 1838
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 445
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 295–296
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 618–619
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 696524
, adult male, collected on
Swan Island
,
38.15S
,
144.41E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Victoria
,
Australia
, on 2
January 1909, by Thomas Tregellas (no. 367). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4919) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range as ‘‘
Victoria, South Australia
.’’
The
holotype
bears in addition to
Tregellas’
original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
The
following specimens are
paratypes
:
AMNH 696490
(Mathews no. 9666), male,
Eyre Peninsula
,
8 September 1911
;
AMNH 696496
(9984), male,
Port Augusta
,
7 October 1911
;
AMNH 696497
(9986), male immature,
Port Augusta
,
4 October 1911
;
AMNH 696498
(9985), female immature,
Port Augusta
,
4 October 1911
;
AMNH 696500
(10141), male,
Turners Well
,
10 November 1911
;
AMNH 696517
(5114), sex?,
Hawthorne
,
3 May 1908
;
AMNH 696522
(3394), male,
Little River
,
31 August 1908
.
AMNH 696496
,
696497
, and 696498 are also
syntypes
of
Acanthagenys rufogularis augusta
(see below). The following are possible
paratypes
, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog:
AMNH 696499
, male, near
Coorong
,
13 September 1909
;
AMNH 696503
, female,
Frankston
,
21 September 1908
;
AMNH 696515
, male,
Auburn
,
14 May 1907
;
AMNH 696516
, male,
Auburn
,
14 July 1907
.
See
Schodde and Mason (1999: 295)
for reasons to keep
rufogularis
in the genus
Acanthagenys
.