Acanthiza pusilla peroni 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 : 155

Acanthiza pusilla peroni Mathews

Acanthiza pusilla peroni Mathews, 1918: 23 (Peron Peninsula, Sharks Bay, Mid-Western Australia).

Now Acanthiza apicalis whitlocki North, 1909 . See Mayr, 1986b: 436, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 201–203.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600596 , adult male, collected on the Peron Peninsula , 26.00S, 113.45E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia, on 22 November 1913, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was said to be a male with the above data. This is the only specimen in AMNH with those data, and it is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews on Carter’s label and has a Rothschild type label. It also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 447, left-hand fig., opp. p. 409, text p. 413), where it is confirmed as the type of peroni. It was accepted as the type by Mayr and Serventy (1938: 264).