Acanthiza squamata De Vis

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 : 148

Acanthiza squamata De Vis

Acanthiza squamata De Vis, 1890: 248 (Herberton) .

Now Acanthiza reguloides squamata De Vis, 1890 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 207–208.

Syntype: AMNH 600712, adult male, collected at Herberton, 17.23S, 145.23E ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, [in May 1889 ( Ingram, 1987: 250)], by K. Broadbent. From the QM (old no. C.63) and the Mathews Collection (no. 18458) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews obtained this specimen when he visited Australia in 1914 ( Mathews, 1942: 39) and cataloged it near the end of his catalog. On the reverse of the QM label is written: ‘‘CO-TYPE compared with type in Brisbane Museum April 29/ 1914 ’’. In addition to the QM label, the specimen bears a Mathews type label and a Rothschild Collection label. An AMNH type label has been added. Broadbent collected two males and a female ( De Vis, 1890: 249). On the QM label of the AMNH specimen, ‘‘-a-’’ appears. Ingram (1987: 240) explained that these small letters refer to De Vis’ system of numbering each specimen of a taxon. Ingram (1987: 250) also gave information on the two syntypes that are in QM.