Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi 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 : 158

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi Mathews

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi Mathews, 1912a: 351 (Tasmania).

Now Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 212–213.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601083 , male, collect- ed in Tasmania, Australia, date not given, by R.H.W. Leach. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9086) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It was the only specimen of this species cataloged by Mathews at that time and is there noted as a Tasmanian specimen obtained from Leach. The original label is not present. It was cataloged on 8 September 1911 and bears a Mathews Collection label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The number ‘‘574’’ that appears on the Mathews Collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). Of additional Tasmanian specimens of A. chrysorrhoa from the Mathews collection, most were either not dated or were collected after the publication of leachi. Two specimens are paratypes: AMNH 601086 (Mathews no. 2213), an unsexed specimen from Edwin Ashby collected in March 1896 ; and AMNH 601089 (4580), an unsexed and undated specimen collected by Leach.

Mayr (1986b: 438) synonymized leachi with sandlandi. Schodde and Mason (1999: 212–213) recognized leachi.