Diaphorillas textilis myall 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 : 116-117

Diaphorillas textilis myall Mathews

Diaphorillas textilis myall Mathews, 1916c: 90 (Myall Creek, Cariewerels, Gawler Ranges, Central Australia).

Now Amytornis textilis myall (Mathews, 1916) . See Parker, 1972: 158–163, Schodde, 1982: 185, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 116–117.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 598074 , adult male, collected at Cariewerloo (5 Cariewerels) Station , 32.25S, 137.14E ( USBGN, 1957b), on Myall Creek, Gawler Ranges, South Australia, Australia, on 16 September 1912, by S.A. White (no. 1070). From the Mathews Collection (no. 14984) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave only the above locality data for the type. In his catalog, Mathews listed two specimens, both collected at the same place and date by White.

In addition to White’s field label, the Mathews Collection label (marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews), and Mathews’ type label, AMNH 598074 bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923a: pl. 469, upper left fig., opp. p. 186, text p. 186), where the male, collected on Myall Creek, Cariewerels (sic) Station, Gawler Ranges on 16 September 1912, is said to be the type of ‘‘ Diaphorillas myall ’’, thereby designating it the lectotype. The second specimen, AMNH 598075 (White no. 827), is an immature female, collected on 16 September 1912, and is a paralectotype.

White (1913: 28–29) listed these birds under Amytornis modesta : ‘‘It was not till we were on our homeward track, and had reached Myall Creek, that we were fortunate enough to procure an adult specimen and two young birds walking through the saltbush near the dry water-course.’’ Parker (1972: 162) called attention to the fact that White had, in fact, collected four specimens, the two at AMNH and two in the S.A. White Collection now in SAMA. Because in his original description Mathews did not distinguish between his two specimens, Parker (1972: 162) thought both specimens in AMNH were syntypes, apparently unaware of Mathews’ later designation of a lectotype.