Cincloramphus cruralis clelandi Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 19

Cincloramphus cruralis clelandi Mathews

Cincloramphus cruralis clelandi Mathews, 1912a: 338 (Perth, West Australia).

Now Cincloramphus cruralis ( Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 708.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 587760 , unsexed, collected at Mindigong , Perth , 31.58S, 115.49E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, Australia, in September 1907. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2094) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews did not give any information about the type other than it was from Perth, adding that the range of the subspecies was ‘‘SouthWest Australia’’. However, the above specimen bears both a Mathews type label with his catalog number, and a Rothschild type label. Mindigong appears on the Mathews Collection label. This is the only Perth specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and I consider it the holotype.

Mathews (1930: 569) said that this form was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 436, upper fig., opp. p. 297, text p. 298). This is paratype AMNH 587780 (Mathews no. 5196), female, Lake Yanchep, 31.32S, 115.33E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, 14 November 1904, obtained by Mathews from WAM (no. 7057) and cataloged by him on 10 September 1910.