Sphenostoma cristatum tanami 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 : 58

Sphenostoma cristatum tanami Mathews

Sphenostoma cristatum tanami Mathews, 1912a: 379 (Tanami, Northern Territory).

Now Psophodes occidentalis (Mathews, 1912) . See Deignan, 1964a: 231, Ford and Parker, 1973, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 415.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683522 , adult male, collected on the Tanami Gold Field, 1200 ft, 198599S, 1298439E ( USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, 10 March 1910, by John Porter Rogers. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5137) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mathews did not indicate how many specimens he examined, but the above specimen is the only one he cataloged at that time. In addition to the field label, this specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The ‘‘A693’’ that appears on Rogers’ label refers to Sphenostoma cristatum in Mathews’ (1908) Handlist. Mathews (1930: 688) later synonymized tanami with his Sphenostoma cristatum pallidum .

For the many different treatments of the taxa within the genus Cinclosoma , see Condon, 1962, Deignan, 1964a, Ford, 1983, and Schodde and Mason, 1999, and references therein.