Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus Mathews

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Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus Mathews

Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus Mathews, 1912a: 420 (Swan Island, Victoria). 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 696524 , adult male, collected on Swan Island , 38.15S, 144.41E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 2

January 1909, by Thomas Tregellas (no. 367). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4919) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ The holotype bears in addition to Tregellas’ original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 696490 (Mathews no. 9666), male, Eyre Peninsula , 8 September 1911 ; AMNH 696496 (9984), male, Port Augusta , 7 October 1911 ; AMNH 696497 (9986), male immature, Port Augusta , 4 October 1911 ; AMNH 696498 (9985), female immature, Port Augusta , 4 October 1911 ; AMNH 696500 (10141), male, Turners Well , 10 November 1911 ; AMNH 696517 (5114), sex?, Hawthorne , 3 May 1908 ; AMNH 696522 (3394), male, Little River, 31 August 1908. AMNH 696496 , 696497 , and 696498 are also syntypes of Acanthagenys rufogularis augusta (see below). The following are possible paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 696499 , male, near Coorong , 13 September 1909 ; AMNH 696503 , female, Frankston , 21 September 1908 ; AMNH 696515 , male, Auburn , 14 May 1907 ; AMNH 696516 , male, Auburn , 14 July 1907 .

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 295) for reasons to keep rufogularis in the genus Acanthagenys .