Acrocephalus australis carterae Mathews, 1912

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 : 28

Acrocephalus australis carterae Mathews

Acrocephalus australis carterae Mathews, 1912a: 343 (North-West Australia (Derby)).

Now Acrocephalus australis gouldi Dubois, 1901 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 68, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 698–699.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 594519 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.01S, 123.35E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), near Derby, King Sound, Western Australia, Australia, on 12 April 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 1569). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8681) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype. In addition to the Rogers label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was figured in Mathews (1922a: pl. 442, opp. p. 354, text p. 355), where it is confirmed as the type of carterae. Mathews did not say how many specimens he examined, only giving the range of the form as northwest Australia. Paratype AMNH 594521, unsexed, from the Strelly River, collected in August 1907, bears Mathews catalog number 2137 and was cataloged by him prior to 1910. A second specimen with the same data was not found in the Mathews catalog.