Anthus australis bilbali Mathews, 1912

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 46

Anthus australis bilbali Mathews

Anthus australis bilbali Mathews, 1912a: 424 (Wilson’s Inlet, South­West Australia).

Now Anthus australis bilbali Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 739.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 572892 , adult male, collected at Wilson Inlet, 35°00′S, 117°24′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 422), Western Australia, on 6 April 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4859) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: This specimen bears the field label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Mathews Collection number of the holotype was given in the original description, and according to his catalog, this specimen was collected by [F.B.Lawson] Whitlock.

Mathew’s vague range, ‘‘ South­West Australia’’, again leads to uncertainty with regard to paratypes. Four additional specimens collected by Whitlock at Wilson Inlet in 1909 and 1910 are definitely paratypes: AMNH 572893–572896.

Johnstone (2001: 89) included this subspecies in A. a. australis .