Acanthiza nana clelandi 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 : 163

Acanthiza nana clelandi Mathews Acanthiza nana burtoni Mathews

Acanthiza nana clelandi Mathews, 1920d: 106 (Bunya Mts., Queensland).

Now Acanthiza nana nana Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 . See Mayr, 1986b: 441, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 214–215.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600938 , adult male, collected in the Bunya Mountains , 26.52S, 151.35E ( Storr, 1984: 181), Queensland, Australia, on 6 October 1919, by J.B. Cleland (no. 487). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type was collected by Cleland in the Bunya Mountains on 6 October 1919. AMNH 600938 is the only such specimen that came to AMNH. The reverse of Cleland’s label is marked ‘‘Type of A.n. clelandi Math’’ in Mathews’ hand. Later, Mathews (1920e: 121) found his name A. n. clelandi to be preoccupied by A. lineata clelandi Mathews, 1912 , and he provided A. nana burtoni to replace it. In addition to Cleland’s label, the specimen bears Rothschild Collection and type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 449, opp. p. 435, text p. 436), where it is confirmed as the type of A. n. burtoni. The same specimen is the holotype of clelandi Mathews, 1920 and burtoni.

Mayr (1986b: 441) considered this form to be a synonym of nominate A. nana , while Schodde and Mason (1999: 214) indicated that it came from a zone of intergradation between A. n. nana and A. n. modesta De Vis. It is quite brightly colored and appears closest to A. nana nana .