Acanthagenys rufogularis wei Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 163

Acanthagenys rufogularis wei Mathews

Acanthagenys rufogularis wei Mathews, 1912a: 421 (West Australia (Lake Way)).

Now Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, 1838 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 445, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 295–296, Christidis and Boles, 2008, 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 618–619.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696539 , adult male, collected at Lake Way , 26.50S, 120.25E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509), East Murchison , Western Australia, Australia, on 12 July 1909, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3396) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of wei as ‘‘ Mid Westralia. ’’ In addition to Whitlock’s original label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes, all collected by Whitlock, are: Lake Way, AMNH 696540 (Mathews no. 3398), female, 21 August 1909 ; Bore Well , AMNH 696541 , male, 4 August 1909 ; East Murchison , AMNH 696542 (3318), female, 23 October 1909, AMNH 696543 (3319), female, 27 October 1909, AMNH 696544 (3320), female, 27 October 1909 ; Day Dawn , AMNH 696545 (5351), male, 8 June 1903. Whitlock (1910: 186–187) gave a more explicit locality for the specimens he labeled ‘‘ East Murchison. ’’ Shortly after 17 September 1909, he left Wiluna and until 6 November was in the area of Milly Pool ‘‘some 20 miles or thereabouts to the north-west of the township, and lying on the stock route from Peak Hill and the Gascoyne and Ashburton Rivers.’’