Paragraucalus lineatus austini 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 : 62

Paragraucalus lineatus austini Mathews

Paragraucalus lineatus austini Mathews, 1916: 60 (New South Wales).

Now Coracina lineata lineata (Swainson, 1825) . See Peters et al., 1960: 179.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 562140 , immature female, collected at Broadwater , 28°59′S, 153°16′E (Times Atlas), New South Wales, Australia, on 25 November 1906, by ‘‘ L.H. ’’ From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said of the type only that it was from New South Wales and ‘‘not so heavily barred’’. Later, Mathews (1921–1922) recognized his subspecies austini, adding that when he received the ‘‘paler’’ New South Wales birds, he named them. He did not say how many specimens he had. Only two Mathews specimens of this species from New South Wales (both from Broadwater) came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and neither had been included in the AMNH type collection. Only the above specimen is in the paler, less heavily barred immature plumage, thus matching the description, and I hereby designate it the lectotype. AMNH 562139, a female in adult plumage and not paler than other specimens of C. l. lineata , collected on 21 April 1906 by R.N. Ross, was almost certainly in Mathews’ hand when he named austini and it becomes a paralectotype. Neither specimen bears a Mathews catalog number. Later, Mathews (1930: 537) synonymized this form with nominate ‘‘ Paragraucalus lineatus ’’.