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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
313
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journal article
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Acanthiza nana laetior
Mayr and Serventy
Acanthiza nana laetior
Mayr and Serventy, 1938: 275
(Tucla, Saddleworth,
South Australia
).
Now
Acanthiza nana modesta
De Vis, 1905
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 441
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 214–215
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 600971
, adult female, collected at
Tuela
(
5
Tucla),
Saddleworth
,
34.05S
,
138.47E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
20 May 1904
, by Edwin Ashby. From the
Mathews Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mayr and Serventy cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description. As noted above, this specimen is also a
paratype
of
Acanthiza nana mathewsi
.
Paratypes
of
A. n. laetior
are: AMNH 600970, a male specimen from Tuela, collected on the same day and also a
paratype
of
mathewsi
; and AMNH 600972, female, Murray Bridge, collected by Ashby on
9 September 1910
.
Mayr (1986b: 441)
implied that ‘‘Mt. Lofty’’ had been the original
type
locality of
laetior
and that
Condon (1969: 77)
had corrected this to ‘‘Tuela farm, Saddleworth’’. However, this was a misreading of Condon, who corrected the spelling from ‘‘Tucla’’ to ‘‘Tuela’’. The mention of ‘‘Mt. Lofty’’ only occurred in relation to the range of the following species.