Tasmanornis humilis tregellasi 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 : 129-130

Tasmanornis humilis tregellasi Mathews

Tasmanornis humilis tregellasi Mathews, 1914b: 99 (King Island).

Now Sericornis frontalis tregellasi (Mathews, 1914) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 601406 , adult male, collected on King Island , 39.50S, 144.00E ( USBGN, 1957b), Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, on 27 April 1914, by Thomas H. Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18484) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Mathews (1922e: 32), at the end of his description of the second adult male, said: ‘‘Figured. Collected on King Island on the 27th of April, 1914 and is the type of T. h. tregellasi.’’ AMNH 601406 is the specimen bearing a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, and thus Mathews designated it the lectotype. It is the model for Mathews (1922e: pl. 457, bottom fig., opp. p. 31, text p. 32). This specimen had not previously been recognized as a type. AMNH 601405 is a paralectotype, male, collected on King Island by Tregellas on 24 April 1914, but apparently not cataloged by Mathews. The number ‘‘582’’ appears on both of Tregellas’ labels; this refers to Mathews (1908a) where species number 582 is Sericornis frontalis , the identification written by Tregellas on his label. A third specimen, AMNH 601407, male, collected on King Island on 27 November 1908 by S.A. White, is a probable paralectotype. There are also two paralectotypes in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

In del Hoyo et al. (2007: 583), tregellasi is treated as a subspecies of Sericornis humilis .