Psophodes olivaceus scrymgeouri Mathews

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 56

Psophodes olivaceus scrymgeouri Mathews

Psophodes olivaceus scrymgeouri Mathews, 1912a: 333 (Victoria) .

Now Psophodes olivaceus olivaceus (Latham, 1802) . See Hartert, 1931: 51, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 409.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585563 , unsexed adult, collected in Gippsland , Victoria, Australia, undated. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4986) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews Collection number of the holotype was cited in the original description ; it bears a Mathews green ‘‘Type’’ label with the catalog number, as well as the Rothschild type label, and a third label with locality data. According to the catalog, this specimen was obtained from ‘‘Wilkinson’’ and cataloged in July 1910. Specimens of other species from Wilkinson cataloged at the same time were from Northern Territory, New South Wales, and Victoria, with one collected as early as 1888, so dating of this holotype is not possible .

Mathews (1930: 563) considered scrymgeouri a synonym of nominate olivaceus .