Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki
Mathews
Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki
Mathews, 1913a: 193
(Roebuck Bay, North-west
Australia
(coast)).
Now
Taeniopygia castanotis
(Gould, 1837)
. See
Mayr et al., 1968: 358
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 761–762
;
Dickinson, 2003: 733
; and
Payne, 2010: 357
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 720146
, adult male, collected at
Roebuck Bay
,
18.04S
,
122.17E
(
USBGN
, 1957), northwestern
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
12 December 1895
, by Knut Dahl. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 11044) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and said that the range of the form was coastal northwestern
Australia
.
Paratype
: Roebuck Bay,
AMNH 720147
(Mathews no. 11045), female,
12 December 1895
, by Dahl.
Dahl had collected in
Australia
in 1894– 1896 and in his book (
Dahl, 1927: 272–306
) described his stay at Hill Station,
17.46S
,
122.13E
(USBGN, 1957), during which he collected these specimens. In 1912, Mathews obtained specimens collected by Dahl from R. Collett at ZMO (
Mathews, 1912b: 25
)