Anthus australis tribulationis 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 : 45

Anthus australis tribulationis Mathews

Anthus australis tribulationis Mathews, 1912a: 425

(North­West Australia, Point Torment).

Now Anthus australis australis Vieillot, 1818 . See

Schodde and Mason, 1999: 738.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 572858 , adult male, collected at Point Torment, 17°01′S, 123°35′E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 419), King Sound , Western Australia, on 28 December 1910, by John P. Rogers (no. 1050). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8284) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews Collection number of the holotype was cited in the original description. This specimen bears the collector’s label and the Mathews and Rothschild type labels. As in the previous subspecies, Mathews (1912a: 425) gave the range as ‘‘ North­West Australia’’ and did not state how many specimens he had. There are four additional specimens from the Mathews Collection collected by Rogers at Point Torment that must be paratypes: AMNH 572859–572862. AMNH 572859 bears the Mathews yellow label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1925 – 1927, pt. 4, p. 131 and pl. 558). Many authors include this taxon in Anthus novaeseelandiae , as a synonym of A. n. subaustralis.