Chthonicola sagittata queenslandica 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 : 141-142

Chthonicola sagittata queenslandica Mathews

Chthonicola sagittata queenslandica Mathews, 1912f: 119 (Queensland).

Now Pyrrholaemus sagittatus (Latham, 1801) . See Mayr, 1986b: 426, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 158–159.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597529 , adult male, collected at Tambo , 24.52S, 146.15E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 10 August 1881. From the Mathews Collection (no. 14576) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number in the original description. This is the only Queensland specimen from the Mathews Collection that came to AMNH. According to his catalog, Mathews obtained the specimen from [Prof. Robert] Collett, Director of ZMO. Mathews (1942: 43) indicated that the specimens he obtained from Collett were collected by Kurt Dahl. However, according to Whittell (1954: 184), Dahl did not arrive in Australia until 1894. As previously noted ( LeCroy, 2005: 56), some of the specimens Mathews received from Collett had been collected in the early 1880s by Carl Lumholtz, who was stationed at Gracemere (23.27S, 150.27E; Storr, 1984: 183). This was most probably one of those specimens.

Mathews (1913a: 213) specified the type locality as Tambo, the collecting locality of the holotype. In del Hoyo et al. (2007: 591), sagittatus is included in the genus Chthonicola .

[ Calamanthus fuliginosus obscurior Mathews ]

Calamanthus fuliginosus obscurior Mathews, 1923b: 35 (New South Wales).

Now Calamanthus fuliginosus albiloris North, 1902 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 150–151.

Mathews (1923b: 35) described this form, saying that the type was from New South Wales (ex Gould collection). There are no specimens of this species from New South Wales in AMNH.