Megalurus gramineus dubius 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 : 17

Megalurus gramineus dubius Mathews

Megalurus gramineus dubius Mathews, 1912a: 344 (Mannam, South Australia).

Now Megalurus gramineus goulburni Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 703–704.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597911 , adult male, collected near Mannum (5 Mannam), 34.50S, 139.20E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 22 October 1909 by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6204) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype, which bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The type locality is written ‘‘nr. Mannum’’ on Ashby’s label. Another specimen from the Mathews Collection, AMNH 597912, was collected at Mannum on 12 December 1910 and may be a paratype, but I was unable to find it in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when it came into his possession.

Watson et al. (1986a: 43) accepted only one subspecies in Australia, but Schodde and Mason (1999: 703–704) recognized three, with South Australian birds included in M. p. goulburni.