Amaurodryas vittata bassi 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 : 249

Amaurodryas vittata bassi Mathews

Amaurodryas vittata bassi Mathews, 1914b: 92 (Barren Island).

Now Melanodryas vittata vittata (Quoy and Gaimard, 1830) . See Mayr, 1986d: 567, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 371–372.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 607962 , adult female, collected on Cape Barren Island , 40.25S, 148.12E ( USBGN, 1957b), Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, on 21 November 1912, by C.F. Cole. From the Mathews Collection (catalog no. 18483) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from Barren Island. In addition to Cole’s original label, marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, and a Rothschild type label, AMNH 607962 also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 380, upper fig., opp. p. 121, text p. 122). On p. 122, the figured female from Barren Island is described and is said to be the type of bassi, thereby designating it the lectotype.

Cole (1913: 74) was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union group surveying the avifauna of Cape Barren Island in November 1912. Three specimens of this species from Cape Barren Island, collected by Cole, came to Mathews in 1914 with the Cole Collection ( Whittell, 1954: 158). The two paralectotypes are AMNH 607963 and 607964, males, collected on the same date, but not cataloged by Mathews.