Calamanthus campestris dorrie 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 : 145

Calamanthus campestris dorrie Mathews

Calamanthus campestris dorrie Mathews, 1912a: 337 (Dorrie Island, west Australia).

Now Calamanthus campestris dorrie Mathews, 1912 . See Mayr, 1986b: 429, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 154–157.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 587957 , adult male, collected on Dorré (5 Dorrie) Island, 25.09S, 113.11E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, Australia, on 15 August 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 7986) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. Although he did not say how many specimens he examined, the holotype is the only specimen of dorrie that came to AMNH. He obtained it from the WAM and cataloged it on 16 March 1911 ; the number ‘‘10533’’ that appears on the field label may be a WAM number. In addition to the field label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 435, opp. p. 288, text p. 289), where it is confirmed as the type of dorrie.

Apparently, this specimen was collected by H.F.O. Lipfert, who collected on Bernier and Dorré islands in 1910 (R. Schodde, personal commun., and Whittell, 1954: 447). See Lipfert (1912) for an account of this trip.