Acanthiza lineata whitei 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 : 164

Acanthiza lineata whitei Mathews Acanthiza lineata alberti Mathews

Acanthiza lineata whitei Mathews, 1920d: 106 (Bunya Mts., Queensland).

Now Acanthiza lineata alberti Mathews, 1920 . See Mayr, 1986b: 441, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 216–217.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600989 , unsexed, collected in the Bunya Mountains , 26.52S, 151.35E ( Storr, 1984: 181), Queensland, Australia, on 3 October 1919, by J.B. Cleland (no. 483). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The above specimen is the only one in AMNH from the Bunya Mountains, and its data fit those given for the type by Mathews in the original description. Mathews (1912c: 44) had previously described from Kangaroo Island an Acanthiza lineata whitei , and realizing that his 1920 name was preoccupied, supplied the replacement name, Acanthiza lineata alberti ( Mathews, 1920e: 121) ; both have the same type. In addition to Cleland’s label and a Rothschild Collection label, the specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 450, opp. p. 444, text p. 445), and it is there confirmed as the type of alberti. The only name that appears on this yellow label is Acanthiza lineata alberti , with reference to publication of the nomen novum, but the writing is not in Mathews’ hand. On the reverse of Cleland’s label, Mathews wrote ‘‘ Type of A.l. whitei Math. ’’, and on the reverse of the Rothschild label, someone has written ‘‘ type of alberti’’. An AMNH type label has been added to this specimen to clarify its status as the type of both names.