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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Epthianura tricolor assimilis
Mathews
Epthianura tricolor assimilis
Mathews, 1912a: 341
(Lake Way, West
Australia
).
Now
Epthianura tricolor
Gould, 1841
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 462
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 341–342
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 577545
, adult male, collected at
Lake Way
,
26.50S
,
120.25E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509
),
East Murchison
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, in
July 1909
, by
F. Lawson Whitlock. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 2124) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. In addition to Whitlock’s label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
Four paratypes
, two of which were cataloged by Mathews at the same time as the
holotype
, were collected by Whitlock at Borewell, East Murchison, in
August 1909
: AMNH 577546 (Mathews no. 2123), 577547, 577548 (2125), and 577549.
Whitlock (1910)
described the itinerary and collecting localities of his 1909 expedition to the East Murchison.