Acrocephalus australis inexpectatus Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 29

Acrocephalus australis inexpectatus Mathews

Acrocephalus australis inexpectatus Mathews, 1912e: 92 (New South Wales).

Now Acrocephalus australis australis (Gould, 1838) . See Watson et al., 1986a: 68, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 698–699.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594505 , adult male, collected at Parramatta , 33.50S, 150.57E (Times Atlas), New South Wales, Australia,

in October 1909, by Schräder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4614) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype, which bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels. New South Wales was given as the type locality and the range of the form, but Parramatta is the collecting locality of the holotype as noted by Mathews (1913a: 209). The field label bears the numbers ‘‘551’’, which refers to the number of Acrocephalus australis in Mathews’ (1908a), and ‘‘1043’’, the significance of which I have not discovered. There are at least four paratypes: AMNH 594506– 594509 (Mathews nos. 4611–4613 and 5990, all cataloged in 1910) collected by Schräder at Parramatta in October 1909.