Sphenostoma cristatum pallidum 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 : 57-58

Sphenostoma cristatum pallidum Mathews Sphenostoma cristatum pallidum Mathews,

1912a: 378 (Leigh’s Creek, South Australia).

Now Psophodes cristatus (Gould, 1838) . See

Deignan, 1964a: 231, Ford and Parker, 1973,

and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 417.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683517 , adult male, collected at Leigh Creek , 308319S, 1388259E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 19 October 1910, skinned by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6196) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The number of specimens examined was not indicated, but the above specimen was the only one of this species cataloged there. The number ‘‘693’’ that appears on the Ashby label refers to Sphenostoma cristatum in Mathews’ (1908) Handlist.

In addition to Ashby’s label, the Mathews type label, and the Rothschild type label, the above specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label and was the model for plate 495, upper figure ( Mathews, 1923: opposite p. 47, text on p. 48).

Sphenostoma cristatum occidentale Mathews Sphenostoma cristatum occidentale Mathews, 1912a: 378 (Day Dawn, West Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683535 , adult male, collected at Day Dawn, 278319S, 1178539E (Times Atlas), 1400 ft, Western Australia, on 15 May 1903, by ‘‘F.L.’’. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5221) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was given in the original description, with no indication of the number of specimens examined. A single specimen obtained from the WAM was cataloged at that time; number ‘‘5497’’ appearing on the field label is probably the WAM number.

In addition to the field label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, this specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label and was the model for plate 495, lower figure ( Mathews, 1923: opposite p. 47, text on p. 48). Mathews (1930: 688) later synonymized occidentale with his Sphenostoma cristatum pallidum .

The ‘‘F.L.’’ on the collector’s label probably refers to F. Lawson Whitlock, who during this period was publishing under the name ‘‘F. Lawson’’, with many of his specimens going to WAM ( Whittell, 1954: 765– 769).