Pomatostomus superciliosus ashbyi Mathews, 1911

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Pomatostomus superciliosus ashbyi Mathews

Pomatostomus superciliosus ashbyi Mathews, 1911: 87 (South­West Australia).

Now Pomatostomus superciliosus ashbyi Mathews, 1911 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 404–405.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586038 , adult male, collected at Broomehill, 338519S, 1178389E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 411), Western Australia, on 14 June 1908, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2048) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews catalog number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Other specimens from Broomehill cataloged at the same time are paratypes: AMNH 586039 (Mathews no. 2047), male, 14 June 1908 ; AMNH 586041 (no. 2050), male, 9 September 1906 ; and AMNH 586042 (no. 2049), male, 23 September 1907. A fourth specimen, AMNH 586043 (no. 9727), collected on 14 May 1910, was not cataloged by Mathews until 23 November 1911 and was probably not in hand early enough to be a paratype ; the description was published 27 April 1911. Other specimens from Broomehill were collected after the publication date. Because the range was given as ‘‘ South­West Australia’ ’, specimens from Lake Way, cataloged by Mathews at the same time as the holotype, are not considered paratypes .

Pomatorhinus superciliosus gwendolenae Mathews

Pomatorhinus superciliosus gwendolenae Mathews, 1912a: 336 (Carnarvon, West Australia). Now Pomatostomus superciliosus superciliosus (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Ford, 1971: 105, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 404–405. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586025, adult male, collected at Carnarvon, 248519S, 1138459E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, on 18 September 1911, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9729) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number for the holotype in the original description but did not say how many specimens he examined. AMNH 586026 , male, collected at Carnarvon on 19 September 1911, bears Mathews no. 9728 and is a paratype. Six additional specimens that were cataloged earlier than the above specimens must also be paratypes: AMNH 586030 (Mathews no. 2051), male, 24 July 1909 ; AMNH 586031 (no. 2053), female, 24 July 1909 ; AMNH 586032 (no. 2052), female, 16 July 1909, all from Lake Way , East Murchison ; AMNH 586033 (no. 3924) and AMNH 586034 (no. 3925), males, 25 October 1909, East Murchison ; and AMNH 586035 (no. 5315) male nestling, Waraga, Yalgoo. Specimens from the Rothschild Collection that were never in the Mathews Collection are not considered paratypes .

Pomatostomus ruficeps bebba Mathews

Pomatostomus ruficeps bebba Mathews, 1916: 60 (South Queensland).

Now Pomatostomus ruficeps (Hartlaub, 1852) . See Deignan, 1964b: 282, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 406.

PROBABLE HOLOTYPE: AMNH 586064 , immature male, collected at Cunnamulla , 288049S, 1458409E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 18 July 1902, Henry L. White Collection. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The description of P. r. bebba was minimal. Mathews did not designate a type other than to say that it was from South Queensland. The above specimen is the only Queensland specimen of P. ruficeps that AMNH received with the Rothschild Collection and it is probably Mathews’ type, although it bears neither a Mathews nor a Rothschild type label. The collector is not identified, but written in the same ink on the reverse of his label is ‘‘new bird?’’, which is then crossed out. The specimen had originally been in the collection of H.L. White, from whom Mathews presumably obtained it. It also bears a Rothschild Collection label, printed ‘‘ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’’.

This specimen, collected on 18 July 1902 at Cunnamulla, was the basis for the description of the juvenile of ‘‘ Morganornis ’’ ruficeps in Mathews (1922: 273), but it was not further connected with ‘‘ M.’’ ruficeps bebba, listed by Mathews (1922: 275).