Calamanthus campestris macgillivrayi 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 : 143

Calamanthus campestris macgillivrayi Mathews

Calamanthus campestris macgillivrayi Mathews 1913c: 8 (Wyurra, Broken Hill, New South Wales).

Now Calamanthus campestris isabellinus North, 1896 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 154–157.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 587938 , adult male, collected at Wyarra (5 Wyurra), 120 mi north of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 October 1912, by William D.K. Macgillivray. From the Mathews Collection (no. 17274) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave only the locality for the type in his original description. In addition to Macgillivray’s field label, the specimen bears both Mathews and Rothschild type labels, on the latter of which is written the Mathews catalog number. Opposite this number in his catalog, Mathews has entered data for the above specimen. It is the only such specimen he obtained from Macgillivray and is the only New South Wales specimen of C. campestris that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. While Mathews gave the locality as Wyurra (sic), Broken Hill (and there is a note on Macgillivray’s label that Wyarra is 120 mi north of Broken Hill), Mathews (1930: 568) later cited Broken Hill as the type locality, a restriction followed by Mayr (1986b: 428). Parker (1972: 166) found the coordinates of Wyarra Tank to be 30.22S, 141.44E. Mayr considered macgillivrayi a synonym of C. c. campestris , but in a later analysis by Schodde and Mason (1999: 154–157), the New South Wales specimens north from Broken Hill were considered C. c. isabellinus.