Species Amytornis (Amytornis) purnelli (Mathews, 1914)

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• Diaphorillas textilis purnelli Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [99].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 598090 adult ♂, NT: Mount Benstead; AMNH 598091 adult ♀, NT: Mount Benstead.

  Secondary source:

   Parker, S.A. 1972. Remarks on distribution and taxonomy of the grass wrens Amytornis textilis, modestus and purnelli. The Emu 72: 157-166 [163] (discusses syntypes rather than holotype/paratype allocation).
• Amytornis textilis everardi Keast, J.A. 1958. Speciation in the genus Amytornis Stejneger (Passeres: Muscicapidae, Malurinae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 6: 33-52 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.1726 adult ♂, SA: Carmeena Rockhole.
  Paratype(s) SAMA B.1727 adult ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598076 ♂, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598077 ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598078 ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598079 ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598080 ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; AMNH 598081 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598082 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598083 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598084 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598085 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598086 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598087 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598088 ♀, SA: Everard Ranges; AMNH 598089 ♀, SA: Everard Ranges; NMV HLW>2762 adult ♀, SA: Carmeena Rockhole; NMV HLW.2763 adult ♂, SA: Everard Ranges.

  Secondary source:

   Parker, S.A. 1972. Remarks on distribution and taxonomy of the grass wrens Amytornis textilis, modestus and purnelli. The Emu 72: 157-166 [164].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Rocky hummock grassfield.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Dusky Grasswren)

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