Orthonyx temminckii chandleri 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 : 55-56

Orthonyx temminckii chandleri Mathews

Orthonyx temminckii chandleri Mathews, 1912a: 329 (Richmond River, North New South Wales).

Now Orthonyx temminckii Ranzani, 1822 . See Deignan, 1964a: 229, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 395–396, Joseph et al., 2001, and Norman et al., 2002.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585084 , adult male, collected on the Richmond River , New South Wales, Australia, in October 1910. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6528) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his collection number of the holotype in the original description. Opposite this number in his catalog is a specimen of this species, cataloged as a female (but the collector sexed it as a male and it is in male plumage), collected by Schrader on the Richmond River. In addition to the collector’s label and the Rothschild type label, this specimen bears the green Mathews Collection type label with number 6528 and the yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the specimen used for the male in plate 421( Mathews, 1921: opposite p. 173, text on pp. 173–174). The plate is labeled Orthonyx maculatus .

Together with the holotype, Mathews cataloged another male and a female collected by Schrader on the Richmond River in October 1910. Only the holotype bears the Mathews Collection number on its label. Because Mathews had these additional specimens in hand when he named chandleri, they are paratypes: AMNH 585085, male (Mathews no. 6527), and AMNH 585086, female (Mathews no. 6526). Both of these were cataloged by Mathews as males, but they were correctly sexed by Schrader. The female also bears the ‘‘Figured’’ label and appears with the holotype in plate 421 ( Mathews, 1921: opposite p. 173, text on p. 174). A Mathews Collection specimen from the Richmond and Clarence rivers, collected by Chandler, is undated and bears no Mathews Collection number, thus it cannot be accepted as a paratype. Nor do I consider specimens purchased by Rothschild directly from Schrader to be paratypes.

Mathews (1921: 173) incorrectly gave the original description of chanderli as Mathews (1912c: 58). This paper, published in April 1912, gives descriptions of eggs of Australian birds. In it he cited no. 776, under which number chanderli appeared in his Referencelist ( Mathews, 1912a: 329), which had already been published in January.

Whittell (1954: 638) listed this collector as P. Schraeder.

Macrorthonyx spaldingi albiventer

Mathews

Macrorthonyx spaldingi albiventer Mathews,

1915: 130 (Atherton, North Queensland).

Now Orthonyx spaldingii spaldingii Ramsay,

1868. See Deignan, 1964a: 229, Schodde and

Mason, 1999: 397, Joseph et al., 2001, and Nor­

man et al., 2002.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 585108 , adult male, collected at Atherton , 178159S, 1458309E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in September 1908 by Schrader. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6014) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews did not cite his collection number in the original description nor did Hartert (1931: 47), although ‘‘6014’’ appears on the Mathews Collection label, which is also marked ‘‘Type’’. Nine Mathews specimens of Orthonyx spaldingi collected by Schrader at Atherton or Atherton Scrubs in September 1908 came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and I have found all of them in the Mathews Catalog. All were cataloged in 1910 or 1911, would have been available to Mathews in 1915, and thus were syntypes. Hartert (1931: 47) did not unambiguously designate the above specimen the lectotype, but because it was intended as the type by Mathews, bears the Rothschild type label, and has therefore been considered the type, I hereby designate AMNH 585108 the lectotype to avoid confusion in the future. The eight paralectotypes are: AMNH 585109, male (Mathews’ no. 6013), 585110 (5977) and 585111 (6563), females, 585112 (2001), 585113 (2002), 585114 (2003), 585115 (2005), and 585116 (2004).

The number ‘‘514’’ that appears on some of these specimens refers to the number of this species in Mathews’ (1908) ‘‘Handlist’’. Mathews (1930: 556) considered albiventer a synonym of nominate spaldingii .

Whittell (1954: 638) listed the collector as

P. Schraeder.

Androphilus viridis Rothschild and Hartert

Androphilus viridis Rothschild and Hartert, 1911: 33 (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).

Now Androphobus viridis ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1911) . See Deignan, 1964a: 229, and Coates, 1990: 72, 544.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 588309 , adult male, collected on Mt. Goliath , 048459S, 1398559E ( USBGN, 1943), Oranje Mts., Papua Prov., Indonesia, on 9 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5346). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert based their original description on a single specimen and cited Meek’s field number.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 456) included the genera Androphobus , Psophodes , Cinclosoma , and Ptilorrhoa in the subfamily Cinclosomatinae of the Corvidae ; however, Bock (1994: 153) showed that Eupetidae Bonaparte, 1850 , is senior to Cinclosomatidae Mathews, 1921 . Schodde and Mason (1999: 407–408) included these genera in the family Eupetidae .

Psophodes olivaceus magnirostris Mathews

Psophodes olivaceus magnirostris Mathews, 1912a: 92 (Rockhampton, Queensland).

Now Psophodes olivaceus olivaceus (Latham, 1802) . See Hartert, 1931: 52, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 409–410.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 585614 , adult male, collected at Rockhampton , 238229S, 1508329E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in April 1882. From the Mathews Collection (no. 10980) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: The Mathews Collection number of the holotype was given in the original description. A second small label on this specimen gives the locality as Gracemere, April 1882. Storr (1984: 183) gave the coordinates of Gracemere as 238279S, 1508279E. This is the only Rockhampton or Gracemere specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

This specimen was cataloged by Mathews as part of the Dahl collection. However, Whittell (1954: 184) noted Dahl’s date of birth as 1871 and his arrival in Australia as 1894. A spot check of specimens collected in the early 1880s and cataloged by Mathews with the Dahl collection showed that these specimens were collected by Carl Lumholtz, who was stationed at Gracemere, Queensland, and collected for the Christiania museum during those dates ( Whittell, 1954: 457).

Mathews (1942: 53) noted that ‘‘Knut Dahl collected in North and North­Western Australia for the Norwegian Museum [at Christiania]. Professor Collett allowed me to acquire those skins that were new to my collection.’’ He did not mention Carl Lumholtz, but apparently acquired some of his specimens at the same time.