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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Hylacola pyrrhopygia brevicauda
Mathews
Hylacola pyrrhopygia brevicauda
Mathews, 1912a: 332
(
Victoria
).
Now
Calamanthus cautus cautus
(Gould, 1843)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 430
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 148–149
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 585523
, adult female, collected in
Victoria
,
Australia
, on
4 August 1910
, by
F.E. Howe. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 6244) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. He cataloged the single specimen, which he had received from F.E. Howe, on
26 January 1911
. In addition to the field label, the specimen also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
Hartert (1931: 50)
listed
brevicauda
as a synonym of
cautus
.
Mayr (1986b: 430)
retained
cautus
in
Hylacola
and did not recognize subspecies.
Mathews (1913a: 200)
specified the type locality as Underbool,
Victoria
. Only ‘‘Victoria’’ is shown on the field label of the
holotype
; however, there are two Mathews specimens collected by C.F. Cole at Underbool on
7 September 1910
. They may be the source of the type locality cited by Mathews in 1913, although I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into Mathews’ possession. Howe also collected at Underbool and, in fact, the specimen of a different species cataloged by Mathews as number 6243 was from there and may have provided Mathews with the locality.
The species
cauta
is included in the genus
Hylacola
by del
Hoyo et al. (2007: 589)
.