Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Smicrornis brevirostris melvillensis
Mathews
Smicrornis brevirostris melvillensis
Mathews, 1912c: 39
(Melville Island,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Smicrornis brevirostris flavescens
Gould, 1843
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 442
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 176–178
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 606299
, adult male, collected at
Coopers Camp
,
Apsley Strait
,
11.35S
,
130.28E
(
USBGN
, 1957b),
Melville Island
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
11 October 1911
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 2166).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10699) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
Paratypes
at AMNH include specimens collected at Coopers Camp in
October–December 1911
and cataloged by Mathews in
February and March 1912
: AMNH 606300 and 606301 (Mathews nos. 11562 and 11563), AMNH 606303 (11564), AMNH 606304 (10698), and AMNH 606305 (11565). AMNH 606302 is not a
paratype
, as this specimen was collected on
24 February 1912
but not cataloged by Mathews until
9 July 1912
, after the publication of the name on
2 April 1912
. It was written into his catalog over an earlier specimen of the same species, which presumably he had exchanged. The latter specimen was collected on 2?
October 1911
and, if located, is a
paratype
.