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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journal article
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Ancathiza
(sic)
katherina
De Vis
Ancathiza
(sic)
katherina
De Vis, 1905: 43
(Bellenden Ker Range,
4000 ft.
)
Now
Acanthiza katherina
De Vis, 1905
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 196–197
.
Syntype
: AMNH 600487, adult male, collected at Palm Camp, Bellenden Ker Range,
4000 ft
,
17.16S
,
145.50E
(USBGN, 1957b),
Queensland
,
Australia
, by K. Broadbent. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18457) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, De Vis did not say how many specimens he had, although both male and female were described, nor was the collector and date of collection given.
Ingram (1987: 245)
listed
two male
and
two female
syntypes
in QM, all collected by K. Broadbent in
July 1889
. The above specimen bears what is apparently also a Broadbent label with the locality and sex marked. It is labeled ‘‘No. 6 Geregone’’ (sic) and ‘‘-d-’’. Mathews has written and initialed on this label: ‘‘CO-TYPE compared with type in Brisbane Museum
April 30-1914
’’. A second label has only De Vis’ name, ‘‘-d-’’, and the sex written on it. The Mathews Collection label has the data as copied from the original label plus Mathews’ catalog number and the date ‘‘June 89’’. This date does not appear on the original label. The ‘‘p. 215’’ that appears on this label refers to
Mathews (1913a: 215)
, where this form is listed as
Acanthiza pusilla katherina
. Additionally, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. It was among several that Mathews acquired from the QM during his visit to
Australia
in 1914 and is listed as a ‘‘co-type’’ by
Mayr and Serventy (1938: 261)
.