Diaphorillas textilis inexpectatus 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 inexpectatus Mathews

Diaphorillas textilis inexpectatus Mathews, 1912a: 365 (New South Wales).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 598073 , adult male. collected in New South Wales, Australia, in November 1886. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9449) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, but no source was given for the single specimen there listed. In a footnote, Mathews (1923a: 186) said ‘‘as this is a skin from an old collection it may be from the Lower Naomi River [(sic) Namoi River, 29.30S, 148.06E, Parker, 1972: 166]. But this is, of course, only surmise’’. Parker (1972: 161), on the other hand, suggested that K.H. Bennett may have obtained it in the Mossgiel district. In addition to the Mathews Collection label, marked ‘‘Type’’, and the Mathews type label, this specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 469, opp. p. 186, text p. 187), where it is confirmed as the type of inexpectatus.

A second specimen, AMNH 598072 (Mathews no. 11701), undated, immature male?, from New South Wales, was cataloged on 4 April 1912, after the publication of the name, and is not considered a paratype.