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
0003-0090
Megalurus gramineus dubius
Mathews
Megalurus gramineus dubius
Mathews, 1912a: 344
(Mannam,
South Australia
).
Now
Megalurus gramineus goulburni
Mathews, 1912
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 703–704
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 597911
, adult male, collected near
Mannum
(
5
Mannam),
34.50S
,
139.20E
(Times Atlas),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
22 October 1909
by Edwin Ashby. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 6204) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
, which bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The type locality is written ‘‘nr. Mannum’’ on Ashby’s label. Another specimen from the Mathews Collection, AMNH 597912, was collected at Mannum on
12 December 1910
and may be a
paratype
, but I was unable to find it in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when it came into his possession.
Watson et al. (1986a: 43)
accepted only one subspecies in
Australia
, but
Schodde and Mason (1999: 703–704)
recognized three, with South Australian birds included in
M. p. goulburni
.