Malurus lamberti mastersi 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 : 108-109

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
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scientific name	Malurus lamberti mastersi Mathews
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Malurus lamberti mastersi Mathews, 1912a: 360 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Malurus lamberti assimilis North, 1901 View in CoL . See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 85.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602141 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.03S, 136.42E ( Storr, 1977: 105), Northern Territory, Australia, on 20 December 1905, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 32). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2326, not 2320) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description as number 2320. This specimen bears a Mathews type label, but no Rothschild type label, and it was not originally marked as a type when the Rothschild Collection was cataloged at AMNH ; it does bear Mathews’ catalog number 2320, and it had been included in the AMNH type collection. However, the data entered for specimen 2320 in the Mathews catalog do not match the data for the type. This undoubtedly represents a misreading of the handwritten number 2326 in the catalog, where the ‘‘6’’ could easily be mistaken for an ‘‘0’’. Number 2326 is the the only Alexandria specimen to have been collected on 20 December 1905. An AMNH type label has now been added .

The number ‘‘603’’ that appears on both Stalker’s and Mathews’ labels refers to the number of the species in Mathews (1908a). There are three paratypes from Alexandria: AMNH 602140 (Mathews no. 2327), male, AMNH 602142 (2329), female, and AMNH 602143 (2328), female, all collected by Stalker at Alexandria. Ingram (1907: 408), who reported on Stalker’s collection, listed these four specimens under Malurus assimilis .

Stalker’s given name was Wilfred ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: vi), contra Ingram (1907) and Whittell (1954: 680–681).