Microeca fascinans barcoo

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 : 237

Microeca fascinans barcoo S.A. White

Microeca fascinans barcoo S.A. White, 1917: 455 (no locality given).

Now Microeca fascinans pallida De Vis, 1884 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 378–379.

Syntype: AMNH 604516, adult male, collected at Innamincka, 27.47S, 140.41E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 30 September 19[16], by S.A. White. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: When White described this form, he listed three specimens, giving the dates but without giving a locality. ‘‘Innamincka’’ is written by White on his label. Waite (1917: 410) placed the expedition in and around Innamincka in late September and early October 1916. Two of White’s syntypes are in SAMA, and an inquiry by P. Horton and B. Blaylock led to the discovery of the third syntype in AMNH. Due to an inexplicable slip of the pen, White had dated this specimen ‘‘ 30 September 1911 ’’, but the entire expedition took place in September and October 1916 ( Waite, 1917). The AMNH syntype bears a label signed by White, on the reverse of which Mathews has written ‘‘Co-type of Whites subspecies’’, and a Rothschild Museum label, printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’’. An AMNH type label has been added.