Lacustroica whitei neglecta Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 150

Lacustroica whitei neglecta Mathews

Lacustroica whitei neglecta Mathews, 1916a: 62 (Day Dawn, West Australia).

Now Conopophila whitei (North, 1910) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 434, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 324, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 629.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 692373 , adult male, collected at Day Dawn, 1400 ft, 27.29S, 117.51E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 18 May 1903, by F.L[awson Whitlock] (no. 266). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5907) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that the type was from Day Dawn. He had two specimens from the WAM, both collected on the same day by Whitlock. The male specimen, AMNH 692373, bears in addition to Whitlock’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it is illustrat- ed in Mathews (1924: pl. 522, top fig., opp. p. 376, text p. 383), where the figured male is said to be the type of neglecta, thereby designating it the lectotype. It was cataloged by Mathews as no. 5907, although that number was not given in the original description. Whitlock’s label bears the no. 5870 in addition to his field number. This is probably a number assigned to it at WAM. There is one paralectotype in AMNH: AMNH 692374 (Mathews no. 5908, Whitlock no. 265), female, collected at Day Dawn, 1400 ft, on 18 May 1903, probably WAM no. 5879.