Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris loftyi 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 : 155

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris loftyi Mathews

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris loftyi Mathews, 1912a: 398 (Mount Lofty, South Australia).

Now Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris halmaturinus A.G. Campbell, 1906 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 438, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 325–327, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, Dickinson, 2003: 440, and Higgins et al., 2008: 582–583.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693477 , adult male, collected on Mount Lofty , 34.59S, 138.42E

( USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 17 May 1910, by J.B. Cleland (no. 116). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9830) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of loftyi as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ It bears Cleland’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following specimens are paratypes: Mount Lofty , AMNH 693475 (Mathews no. 3051), sex?, 26 May 1897 ; AMNH 693476 (9826), female, 22 September 1911. Other South Australian specimens in AMNH were collected after the 31 January 1912 publication of loftyi or had never been in Mathews’ collection .

The holotype of loftyi was specimen (b) reported on by Cleland (1911: 90), with the collecting locality given as ‘‘Mount Lofty, Adelaide.’’ Schodde and Mason (1999: 327) and Dickinson (2003: 440) considered loftyi a synonym of halmaturinus. Higgins et al. (2008: 582) included it in nominate tenuirostris ; however, there is an inconsistency in the ranges given for subspecies tenuirostris and halmaturina. The Mount Lofty (not Mount Lofty Range) that is the type locality of loftyi is near Adelaide and is included in the range given by Higgins et al. (2008: 582) for halmaturinus; it is not within the range given for tenuirostris .