Petroica phoenicea albicans 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 : 246-247

Petroica phoenicea albicans Mathews

Petroica phoenicea albicans Mathews, 1912a: 304 (Victoria).

Now Petroica phoenicea Gould, 1837 . See Mayr, 1986d: 565, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 384.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 607477 , adult male, collected at Bayswater , 37.51S, 145.16E ( USBGN, 1957b), Victoria, Australia, on 9 July 1910, by F.E. Howe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6252) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, with the range of the form including Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Later, Mathews (1913a: 168), under Littlera chrysoptera phoenicea , specified the type locality of this form as Bayswater, the collecting locality of the holotype. In addition to Howe’s field label, the holotype also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1920a: pl. 378, lower right fig., opp. p. 97, text p. 98), although it was not there said to be the type.

The following specimens are paratypes: Tasmania, AMNH 607433 ( Mathews no. 4416) ; Victoria, Mornington, AMNH 607463 (10533), Frankston, AMNH 607464 (4749), 607466 (5084), 607467 (5083), and 607468 (4748), Parwan, AMNH 607471 (6253), 607472 (4542), 607473 (4544), 607474 (4543), 607478 (1522), and 607480 (5082), Selby, AMNH 607487 (10091), Olinda, AMNH 607505 (10089), 607506 (10088), 607507 (10090), and 607508 (5081), Islington, AMNH 607509 (1626) and 607510 (1627) ; South Australia, Hogans Track, AMNH 607534 (6206). The following are possible paratypes, although I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Victoria, Hawthorn, AMNH 607456 and 607457, collected in 1906 by C.F. Cole ; Frankston, AMNH 607465 , 607469 , and 607470, Sassafras, AMNH 607476 , Mitcham , AMNH 607479 , Selby , AMNH 607482– 607486 and 607503 (these were in the same series as AMNH 607487, above) ; South Australia, Adelaide , AMNH 607538 and 607539 .