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
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Origma solitaria pallida
Mathews
Origma solitaria pallida
Mathews, 1916a: 60
(Blue Mountains,
New South Wales
).
Now
Origma solitaria
(Lewin, 1808)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 411
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 144
.
SYNTYPES
:
AMNH 598448
and 598449 (Mathews nos. 7601 and 7602), males,
AMNH 598450
and 598451 (7599, 7600), females, and
AMNH 598452
(7598), unsexed, all collected at
Lithgow
, in
July 1899
, by
T. Thorpe
;
AMNH 598453
, male, and
AMNH 598454
, female, collected in
May 1915
, by
S. Rohu
;
and
AMNH 598455
(3767), female, collected in
June 1903
, from the
Blue Mountains
,
33.30S
,
150.15E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
New South Wales
,
Australia
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the
Rothschild Collection
.
COMMENTS
: Mathews minimal original description said only that the type was from the Blue Mountains,
New South Wales
, and was lighter than
Origma solitaria solitaria
. AMNH 598453 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was figured in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 446, opp. p. 390, text p. 397), but no information is given there on its type status. However,
Mathews (1922a: 400)
noted that he no longer recognized his subspecies
pallida
. There is no indication on any of the above specimens, all in Mathews’ hand before 1916, as to which one was his type, and therefore there seems to be no alternative but to consider all eight of them
syntypes
.