Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews, 1912

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 : 105-106

Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews

Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews, 1912e: 93 (Flinders Island).

Now Malurus cyaneus samueli Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 90–92.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601739 , adult male, collected on Flinders Island , 40.00S, 148.00E ( USBGN, 1957b), Bass Strait, Australia, on 5 December 1908, by S.A. White (no. 780). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12348) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. A single specimen was cataloged there. AMNH 601740 is probably a paratype. It is a male, collected on Flinders Island on the same date by A.H. Mattingley. Mattingley was leader of the party exploring islands in Bass Strait ( White, 1909), and Mathews may have obtained his specimen from S.A. White at the same time he acquired the holotype, although I did not find it listed in the Mathews catalog. There are five paratypes in SAMA collected by S.A. White on Flinders Island on 5 December 1908 (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

Schodde (1982: 47) and Mayr (1986a: 397) synonymized samueli with M. c. cyaneus .