Anthus australis subaustralis Mathews

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 : 44-45

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2
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scientific name	Anthus australis subaustralis Mathews
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Anthus australis subaustralis Mathews, 1912a: 425 (Lake Way, West Australia).

Now Anthus australis australis Vieillot, 1818 View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 738, and Johnstone, 2001: 89.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 572874 About AMNH , breeding female, collected at Lake Way , 26°50′S, 120°25′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 416), E. Murchison, Western Australia, on 24 July 1909, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3441) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: This specimen bears the original field label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels; the Mathews Collection number of the type was cited in the original description. Mathews did not say how many specimens he had, only that the range was ‘‘Mid Westralia’’. At least the three other specimens collected by Whitlock in the E. Murchison area are paratypes: AMNH 572873 About AMNH , 572875 About AMNH , and 572876 .

Hall (1974: 147) and other authors recognize this subspecies and include it in Anthus novaeseelandiae .

References

Hall, B. P. 1974. Motacillidae - Pipits. In B. P. Hall (editor), Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962 - 1970: 145 - 147. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 396 pp.

Johnstone, R. E., and G. M. Storr. 1998. Handbook of Western Australian birds, vol. 1. Non-passerines (emu to dollarbird). Perth: Western Australian Museum, 436 pp.

Johnstone, R. E. 2001. Checklist of the birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement no. 63: 75 - 90.

Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A Reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 455.

Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.