Acanthiza rosinae 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 : 150

Acanthiza rosinae Mathews

Acanthiza rosinae Mathews, 1913c: 9 (twenty miles north of Adelaide, South Australia).

Now Acanthiza iredalei rosinae Mathews, 1913 . See Mayr, 1986b: 433, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 210–211.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 600818 , adult male, collected 20 mi north of Adelaide , 34.56S, 138.36E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 24 April 1913, by S.A. White

(no. 1164). From the Mathews Collection (no. 17415) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description Mathews designated as type a specimen collected by S.A. White 20 mi north of Adelaide. In addition to the original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels on the above specimen, there is also a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 453, middle right fig., opp. p. 479, text p. 480), where it is noted on p. 480 that the figured bird is the type of rosinae , thus designating it the lectotype.

White (1919: 81) wrote ‘‘Prior to 1912 (? 5 1913) the writer had observed a small dark bird resembling the Acanthiza genus, but no specimens were secured till the type and cotypes were taken’’, but he did not mention the number of specimens collected. There are 10 additional specimens collected by White at the same locality in 1913. The lectotype and two paralectotypes, AMNH 600827 and 600828 (Mathews nos. 17416 and 17417), all collected on 24 April, were cataloged by Mathews on 23 June 1913. The eight additional paralectotypes, AMNH 600819– 600826 (Mathews nos. 17526–17533), were collected on 15 May 1913 and cataloged by Mathews on 28 July 1913. The name was published on 2 August 1913 in the Austral Avian Record, Mathews’ private journal, which allowed for very rapid publication. I consider that these specimens were all in Mathews’ hands by publication and all should be considered paralectotypes. They were all entered in the catalog as Acanthiza rosinae . There are four additional paralectotypes in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).