Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae 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 : 120

Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae Mathews

Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae Mathews, 1914b: 99 (Macarthur River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory).

Now Amytornis dorotheae (Mathews, 1914) . See Schodde, 1982: 165, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 110.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 598138 and 598139, adult males, collected at McArthur Station, 16.27S, 136.06E ( Storr, 1977: 110), McArthur (5 Macarthur) River, Northern Territory, Australia, on 24 September 1913, by H.G. Barnard (nos. 113 and 114) from the H.L. White Collection. From the Mathews Collection (nos. 18427 and 18428, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave only the locality and date of collection of the type in the original description. One of the two specimens in AMNH bears a Mathews type label on which his catalog number 18427 is written, but this number was not given in the description, and his specimen number 18428 bears the same locality and date. Neither is marked ‘‘type’’ in his catalog. Only one set of measurements was given, but these were not said to apply to the type. AMNH 598139 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the specimen illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 472, top fig., opp. p. 209). Even though Mathews does say that the figured bird is an adult male, he does not say that it is the type of dorotheae . Therefore, it is necessary to consider the above two specimens syntypes of Magnamytis woodwardi dorotheae . A third syntype is housed in MV (HLW no. 2739, W. Longmore, personal commun.).

When Mathews (1923a: 209) covered this species in Birds of Australia, he treated both Magnamytis dorotheae and ‘‘ Magnamytis ’’ woodwardi as full species (see below).