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
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Aphelocephala leucopsis pallida
Mathews
Aphelocephala leucopsis pallida
Mathews, 1911b: 62
(Leigh’s Creek, in
South Australia
).
Now
Aphelocephala leucopsis leucopsis
(Gould, 1841)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 458
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 219–220
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 683430
, unsexed, collected at
Leigh Creek
,
30.31S
,
138.25E
(Times Atlas),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
21 September 1910
, specimen prepared by Edwin Ashby and from his collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6195) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. The number ‘‘239’’ that appears on Ashby’s label is crossed out and replaced by ‘‘689’’, which number refers to this species in
Mathews (1908a)
. ‘‘Wong 61’’ is written on the reverse of this label in a hand unknown. In addition to Ashby’s label, the
holotype
bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and was indicated as the type in Mathews’ catalog. Despite the fact that the title of Mathews’ description implied that he had ‘‘examples’’, only
one specimen
from Leigh Creek came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it is the only specimen of this species that Mathews cataloged from Leigh Creek. There is evidence in SAMA that Ashby sent Mathews large portions of his collection, which were later returned to him after Mathews had selected specimens for himself (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.). A second Leigh Creek specimen was obtained by AMNH directly from Ashby, and it is entirely possible that the specimen, AMNH 155617, passed through Mathews’ hands and is a
paratype
.