Stipiturus malachurus hartogi Carter

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 : 115

Stipiturus malachurus hartogi Carter

Stipiturus malachurus hartogi Carter, 1916: 6 (Dirk Hartog Island).

Now Stipiturus malachurus hartogi Carter, 1916 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 101–103.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 602982 , adult male, collected on Dirk Hartog Island , 25.50S, 113.03E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, on 7 May 1916, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The listing of the type in the original description did not distinguish among the Dirk Hartog Island specimens in the Mathews Collection (5 ‘‘Austral Avian Museum, Fairoak, Hants’’). AMNH 602982 bears both a Rothschild and a Mathews type label, and Carter’s field label is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Mathews’ hand. It also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label. I found two illustrations of this form: in Carter and Mathews (1917: pl. 11), where also no type is designated, and in Mathews (1922e: pl. 465, bottom, opp. p. 131, text p. 134), where the male figured is said to be the type of hartogi, collected on 7 May 1916. This serves to designate the lectotype, as AMNH 602982 is the only male collected on that date that came to AMNH. Mathews did not catalog any specimens after 1914. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 294762, 602983, 602984, and 602986–602989. Specimens collected on Dirk Hartog Island by Carter in late October 1916 are not considered paralectotypes, as the name was proposed at the 11 October 1916 meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club, published on 24 October 1916. AMNH 294762 was purchased by Leonard C. Sanford from W.F.H. Rosenberg for AMNH and was part of the original series that Carter collected in April and May 1916.

Schodde (1982: 133) did not recognize hartogi.