Magnamytis kimberleyi 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 : 119

[ Magnamytis kimberleyi Mathews ]

Mathews (1923b: 35) named Magnamytis kimberleyi as a ‘‘subsp. nov.’’, saying only that it ‘‘Differs from M. housei Milligan , in having the breast and under-surface rustyred, not black. Type, Kimberley, North-west Australia.’’ This is apparently the female of A. housei , but no such specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.

Mathews (1923a: pl. 474, right, opp. p. 213, text pp. 213–214) illustrated the type of Magnamytis kimberley , referring to it as ‘‘another male’’ of Magnamytis housei , but the plumage is that of the female. As noted above, this specimen is not now in WAM and its whereabouts is not known.