Cincloramphus rufescens mathewsi Iredale

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 : 20

Cincloramphus rufescens mathewsi Iredale

Cincloramphus rufescens mathewsi Iredale, 1911: 97 (Yalgo, West Australia).

Now Cincloramphus mathewsi Iredale, 1911 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 45, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 706–707, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 580.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 587779 , adult male, collected at Wururga , 28.24S, 116.29E (Times Atlas), Yalgoo (5 Yalgo) G[old] F[ields], 1050 ft, Western Australia, Australia, on 14 August 1903, by F.L. [Whitlock] (no. 313). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5198) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Iredale described only the male and gave the Mathews catalog number of the holotype in the original description. This specimen was obtained from WAM, and the number ‘‘6033’’ on Whitlock’s label may be that museum’s number. Also present are Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 437, right fig., opp. p. 306, text p. 307), where the figured male is confirmed as the type of mathewsi .

When the name rufescens Vigors and Horsfield was found to be based on a misidentification (see below under Cincloramphus mathewsi vigorsi ), Iredale’s name was the next available name for the species. Schodde and Mason (1999: 706), following Wolters, placed C. mathewsi in the subgenus Maclennania . Del Hoyo et al. (2006: 580) suggested that because of the striking morphological differences mathewsi might be better placed in a separate genus.