Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Remizidae
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Climacteris rufa obscura
Carter
Climacteris rufa obscura
Carter, 1910: 16
(Warren River, South-west
Australia
).
Now
Climacteris rufus
Gould, 1841
.
See
Whittell and Serventy, 1948: 88
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 76
, and
Noske, 2007b: 659–660
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 684952
, adult male, collected on the
Warren River
,
34.35S
,
115.50E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
18 February 1910
, by Thomas Carter. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5571) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be in the collection of G.M. Mathews, but no type was designated. The specimen that is now AMNH 684952 bears Carter’s field label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews and with his catalog number (the number ‘‘703A’’ on this label refers to the number of this species in
Mathews, 1908
); a Rothschild type label; a Mathews type label with Mathews’ catalog number; and a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1923b
: pl. 499, middle figure, opp. p. 93, text p. 94) where it is said to be the type of
Climacteris rufa obscura
, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. Number
5571 in
Mathews’ catalog is also indicated as the type.
In
the original description, the range of this form was given as the
Warren
River
.
There
is only one additional
Warren
River
specimen in
AMNH
collected before
31 January 1912
, the publication date of
obscura
;
this
paratype
is
AMNH 684955
(Mathews no. 5770), female, collected on
18 February 1910
by Carter
.