Acanthiza nana laetior Mayr and Serventy

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 : 163

Acanthiza nana laetior Mayr and Serventy

Acanthiza nana laetior Mayr and Serventy, 1938: 275 (Tucla, Saddleworth, South Australia).

Now Acanthiza nana modesta De Vis, 1905 . See Mayr, 1986b: 441, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 214–215.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600971 , adult female, collected at Tuela (5 Tucla), Saddleworth, 34.05S, 138.47E ( USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, on 20 May 1904, by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr and Serventy cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. As noted above, this specimen is also a paratype of Acanthiza nana mathewsi . Paratypes of A. n. laetior are: AMNH 600970, a male specimen from Tuela, collected on the same day and also a paratype of mathewsi ; and AMNH 600972, female, Murray Bridge, collected by Ashby on 9 September 1910.

Mayr (1986b: 441) implied that ‘‘Mt. Lofty’’ had been the original type locality of laetior and that Condon (1969: 77) had corrected this to ‘‘Tuela farm, Saddleworth’’. However, this was a misreading of Condon, who corrected the spelling from ‘‘Tucla’’ to ‘‘Tuela’’. The mention of ‘‘Mt. Lofty’’ only occurred in relation to the range of the following species.