Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni 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 : 151

Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni Mathews

Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni Mathews, 1913e: 76 (Carnarvon, Mid-west Australia).

Now Acanthiza iredalei iredalei Mathews, 1911 . See Mayr, 1986b: 433, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 210–211

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600749 , unsexed, collected at Carnarvon , 24.53S, 113.40E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 505), Western Australia, Australia, on 13 August 1913, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18017) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The locality and date match those given in the original description for the type. Only the single specimen from Carnarvon came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. It bears a Rothschild type label and Carter’s original label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, both with Mathews’ catalog number, which was not cited in the original description. It was entered in the catalog as a single specimen of ‘‘ Acanthiza tanami’’. The number ‘‘560’’ that appears on Carter’s label refers to the number of the species in Mathews (1908a).

That he had a single specimen is confirmed by Mathews’ (1922a: 442) statement that ‘‘… Mr. Tom Carter sent me a bird from Carnarvon, Mid-West Australia which I unhesitatingly named: Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni …’’.