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
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Hylacola pyrrhopygia whitlocki
Mathews
Hylacola pyrrhopygia whitlocki
Mathews, 1912a: 333
(West
Australia
).
Now
Calamanthus cautus whitlocki
(Mathews, 1912)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 430
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 148–149
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 585550
, unsexed adult, collected at ‘‘
MondurubTank’
’ (?),
Stirling Range
,
34.23S
,
117.50E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
22 September 1910
, by
F.L. Whitlock. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 6155) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. In addition to the
holotype
, there are
five paratypes
cataloged at the same time, all collected in the
Stirling
Ranges
in 1910 by
F.L. Whitlock
:
AMNH 585545
(
Mathews
no. 6154), male, 19
October
;
AMNH 585546
(6159), male, 2
October
, near
Yetermirrup
, marked ‘‘
♀
,
J.R.
F[ord]’’
;
AMNH 585547
and 585548 (
Mathews
catalog nos. 6156 and 6157), nestlings, 3
October
,
Yetermirrup
;
and
AMNH 585549
(6158), nestling, 14
October
,
Mt. Donelly. For
an account of his collecting trip, see
Whitlock (1911)
.
Mathews (1913a: 200)
specified the type locality of
whitlocki
as the
Stirling
Range, the collecting locality of his
holotype
.
Mayr (1986b: 430)
retained the genus
Hylacola
and considered
cautus
monotypic; del
Hoyo et al. (2007: 585)
included the subspecies
whitlocki
in the species
Hylacola cauta
.