Psophodes olivaceus sublateralis 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 : 56-57

Psophodes olivaceus sublateralis Mathews

Psophodes olivaceus sublateralis Mathews, 1912a: 334 (Tweed River, North New South Wales).

Now Psophodes olivaceus olivaceus (Latham,

1802). See Hartert, 1931: 51, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 409.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585600 , adult male (but female according to measurements, Hartert, 1931: 51), collected on the Tweed River , New South Wales, Australia, in June 1894, by T. Thorpe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 7127) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews Collection number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mathews did not say how many specimens he examined, but two additional specimens from the Tweed River were cataloged at the same time (February 1911) as part of the Thorpe collection and must be paratypes: AMNH 585601 (7129), male, and AMNH 585602 (7128), immature female, June 1894. Because Mathews specified in the original description that sublateralis came from ‘‘North New South Wales’’, AMNH 585603 (7126), collected on the Shoalhaven River in southern New South Wales near the Victoria border, is not a paratype.

The wings of the holotype and of the paratype sexed as a male measure 91 mm. Females measure 91–95 mm ( Hartert, 1931: 51) and ca. 93–100 mm ( Schodde and Mason, 1999: 409). Males are larger and measure 96–105 mm (Hartert) and ca. 98–108 mm (Schodde and Mason). Thus, it appears that both were missexed.

Mathews (1942: 53) purchased this collection from T. Thorpe in England. Mathews (1930: 563) considered sublateralis a synonym of P. o. olivaceus .

Psophodes nigrogularis pallida [sic] Mathews

Psophodes nigrogularis pallida [sic] Mathews,

1916: 60 (South­west Australia).

Now Psophodes nigrogularis Gould, 1844 . See

Hartert, 1931: 52, and Schodde and Mason,

1999: 411–412.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 458994 , adult male, collected at Cape Mentelle , 338589S, 1148599E ( Johnstone and Storr, 1998: 411), Western Australia, Australia, on 26 December 1901, by Charles Price Conigrave. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews, in naming pallida, said only that the type was from south­west Australia, but later ( Mathews, 1922: 250) added ‘‘5 Cape Mentelle’ ’, which locality appears on Conigrave’s field label ; it does not bear a Mathews type label. Hartert (1931: 52) gave full information on the specimen and noted that it was the only specimen of this form in the Mathews Collection. It bears a Rothschild type label.

‘‘B.M. No. 4625’’ appears on the field label. This is not the Mathews catalog number, which I did not find, and may be a WAM number. Conigrave was a Senior Assistant at the WAM in 1901 ( Whittell, 1954: 166), and Mathews frequently received specimens from Perth.

This specimen also bears the yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label and was the model for the upper figure in plate 431 in Mathews (1922: opposite p. 242, and text p. 250). Mathews (1930: 563) considered pallida a synonym of P. nigrogularis .