Diaphorillas textilis indulkanna 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 : 117

Diaphorillas textilis indulkanna Mathews

Diaphorillas textilis indulkanna Mathews, 1916c: 90 (Indulkanna, Central Australia).

Now Amytornis textilis modestus (North, 1902) . See Parker, 1972: 158–162, Schodde, 1982: 185, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 117.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598068 , adult female, collected at Indulkana (5 Indulkanna) Springs, 27.00S, 133.18E ( Parker, 1972: 166), Indulkana Range, South Australia, Australia, on 11 July 1914, by S.A. White (no. 1676). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: White (1915b: 754) apparently collected a single specimen at this locality: ‘‘ Eyramytis , sp (?). A bird of this genus was met with near Indulkanna [sic] Springs, which was taken at the time for E. goyderi …’’. White’s label has goyderi written in pencil and then marked out. Mathews has marked White’s label as ‘‘Type of D. indulkanna’’. In addition to this label, the holotype bears a Rothschild type label and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 468, top right-hand fig., opp. p. 183, text p. 184), and is there confirmed as the type of indulkanna.

As pointed out by Parker (1972: 159), the Rothschild label incorrectly gives the locality as ‘‘Musgrave Ranges’’. White (1915b: 710) said of his collecting locality: ‘‘Leaving Wantapella Swamp and travelling in a north-westerly direction the Indulkana Range soon showed up …. We passed right under Mount Chandler and along the northern side of the range, going into camp just outside the gorge in which Indulkana Springs are situated …. Just after reaching this range a new grass wren ( Diaphorillas , sp.) was met with …’’.

Mathews did not catalog White’s 1914 collection.