Calamanthus campestris peroni 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 : 142

Calamanthus campestris peroni Mathews

Calamanthus campestris peroni Mathews (in Carter and Mathews), 1917: 586 (Peron Peninsula).

Now Calamanthus campestris rubiginosus A.J. Campbell, 1899 . See Mayr, 1986b: 428, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 154–157.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 587942, 4 December 1916, AMNH 587943, 9 December 1916, AMNH 587944, 3 January 1917, and AMNH 587945, 3 January 1917, males, collected on the Peron Peninsula, 26.00S, 113.45E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), Sharks Bay, Western Australia, Australia, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, nor was the number of specimens given; therefore, all of the above specimens must be considered syntypes. Carter (in Carter and Mathews, 1917: 587) commented that ‘‘the few specimens obtained were left in Western Australia … to wait safer conditions for forwarding across the seas.’’ He had made comparisons of his material with specimens in WAM ( Mathews, 1922a: 294), but Mathews (in Carter and Mathews, 1917) was said to be responsible for the nomenclature and is the author of the name.