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

Anthus australis subaustralis Mathews

Anthus australis subaustralis Mathews, 1912a: 425 (Lake Way, West Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 572874 , 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.

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 , 572875 , and 572876 .

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