Zonaeginthus castanotis wayensis Mathews

Zonaeginthus castanotis wayensis Mathews, 1912a: 428 (West Australia (East Murchison)).

Now Taeniopygia castanotis (Gould, 1837) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 358; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 761–762; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720163, adult male, collected at Lake Way, 26.48S, 120.18E (USBGN, 1957), East Murchison, Western Australia, Australia, on 18 July 1909, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3491) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Mid Westralia. ’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Whitlock’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it served as the model for Mathews (1925: 174, pl. 562, upper fig., opp. p. 169) ; it is there confirmed as the type of wayensis. The following specimens are paratypes: Lake Way, East Murchison, AMNH 720164 ( Mathews no. 3492), male, AMNH 720165 (3489), 720166 (3490), two females, July 1909 ; East Murchison, AMNH 720167 (3982), 720168 (3983), two males, AMNH 720169 (3891), 720170 (3985), 720171 (3984), two females, September-October 1909, all collected by Whitlock ; Laverton, AMNH 720172 (3854), male, 25 October 1908, collector ?; Crooker Mine Lake, Southern Cross, AMNH 720173 (3853), female, 30 July 1905, collected by G.C. Shortridge.

Whitlock (1910: 183) was at Nannine, 26.53S, 118.20E (Times atlas), on 18 July, when the holotype was collected and noted that T. castanotis was abundant and breeding.