Amytis housei Milligan

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 : 118-119

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E6A-1071-FCDC-4FB20AA8FA75
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Amytis housei Milligan
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Treatment

[ Amytis housei Milligan ]

Amytis housei Milligan, 1902: 52 (near Camp F.B. 25).

Now Amytornis housei ( Milligan, 1902) View in CoL . See Schodde, 1982: 173, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 108.

Milligan (1902: 58) had three unsexed specimens collected by House; based on the description, two were males and the third a female. No type was designated. AMNH 598140 About AMNH , adult sex? [male], collected at Camp 25, on 19 June 1901, by F.M. H[ouse] (no. 14), was one of House’s original series. It came to AMNH from the Mathews Collection (no. 10267) via the Rothschild Collection and was acquired by Mathews from the WAM and cataloged by him on 12 February 1912. The number ‘‘4766’’ on the collector’s label is the WAM catalog number. The number ‘‘621’’ on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). The specimen also bears a Mathews type label .

Amytis housei is illustrated in Anonymous (1905: pl. XII, opp. p. 184) and in Mathews (1923a: pl. 474, left, opp. p. 213, text p. 213), where Mathews says the figured male is the type of Amytis housei . However, this does not designate a lectotype, because no information is given to distinguish between the two male syntypes. The AMNH specimen does not have a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label nor does the male specimen in WAM (R. Johnstone, personal commun.). Whittell and Serventy (1948: 81) designated WAM 4767 the lectotype. Therefore, AMNH 598140 is a paralectotype. It is retained in the type collection, with an added label to indicate its status.

Ron Johnstone (personal commun.) kindly provided a copy of the description of housei as well as the location of Camp 25 that he and Glen Storr found to be between the headwaters of the Isdell and Charnley rivers at ca. 16.30S, 125.48E.