Pyrrholaemus brunneus kalgoorlie 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

Pyrrholaemus brunneus kalgoorlie Mathews

Pyrrholaemus brunneus kalgoorlie Mathews, 1922a: 489 (The Southern Cross, Kalgoorlie, etc.)

Now Pyrrholaemus brunneus Gould, 1841 . See Mayr, 1986b: 426, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 160.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 601177, male, and AMNH 601178, female, collected at Crookerdine Lake, Southern Cross, 31.13S, 119.20E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 513), Western Australia, Australia, on 23 and 25 July 1905, respectively, by G. C. Shortridge for W.E. Balston. From the Mathews Collection (nos. 3855 and 3856, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description, nor are there specimens from Kalgoorlie in AMNH. Mathews received the above two specimens from BMNH. They were part of a collection made by G.C. Shortridge for W.E. Balston, who presented them to BMNH. Ogilvie-Grant (1909b: 677), under Sericornis brunnea , reported that Shortridge collected males and females, ‘‘a-f’’, of this species at Crookerdine Lake, 17–25 July 1905. These letters do not appear on the labels, with the reverse of both being marked ‘‘Dupl’’, nor were they given BMNH numbers. These specimens had not previously been recognized as types.