Subspecies Calamanthus montanellus montanellus Milligan, 1903

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• Calamanthus montanellus Milligan, A.W. 1903. Descriptions of a new Calamanthus and a new Megalurus from Western Australia. The Emu 2(4): 200-202 [Date published 1 Apr 1903] [200].

  Type data:

   Lectotype WAM A.31528 adult ♂, WA: Yetemerup Road [34°20S, 117°05E].
  Paralectotype(s) WAM A.31527 adult ♀, WA: Yetemerup Road [34°20S, 117°05E]
  Comment: Mapping co-ordinates approximate.

  Type locality references:

  Anonymous 1960. Type specimens in the Western Australian Museum. Western Australian Museum Annual Report 1959-60: 28-30 [29].
• Calamanthus fuliginosus carteri Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [337].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 587869 adult ♂, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 587870 ♂, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587871 ♂, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587872 ♂, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587873 ♂, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587877 ♀, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587878 ♀, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587881 ♀, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587879 immature unsexed, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587880 immature unsexed, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E]; AMNH 587882 adult unsexed, WA: Broomehill [33ᵒ51'S, 117ᵒ38'E].

  Type locality references:

  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(7): 1-298 [143-144].
• Calamanthus montanellus ashbyi Mathews, G.M. 1922. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 9 pp. 242-518. [Date published 3 Aug 1922] [287].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 587889 adult ♂, WA: Wongan Hills [30°51S, 116°39'E]; AMNH 587890 ♂, WA: Wongan Hills [30°51S, 116°39'E]; AMNH 587891 juvenile ♀, WA: Wongan Hills [30°51S, 116°39'E]; AMNH 587892 nestling unsexed, WA: Wongan Hills [30°51S, 116°39'E].

  Type locality references:

  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(7): 1-298 [144].
• Calamanthus montanellus leakei Mathews, G.M. 1922. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, October 11, 1922. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 43: 13-14 [Date published 31 Oct 1922] [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 587919 adult ♂, WA: Woolundra [31ᵒ37'S, 117ᵒ48'E].

  Type locality references:

  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(7): 1-298 [144-145].

Introduction

Accorded subspecific status within C. campestris, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 182).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, tussock grassland.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [182]

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. (Western Fieldwren)

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