Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Philemon argenticeps broomei
Mathews
Philemon argenticeps broomei
Mathews, 1912d: 101
(Napier, Broome Bay, North-west
Australia
).
Now
Philemon argenticeps argenticeps
(Gould, 1840)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 411
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 291
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 682
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 697020
, male, collected at
Pago Mission
(
5
mission station, as on label),
14.10S
,
126.42E
(Times Atlas),
Napier Broome Bay
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
7 March 1910
, by
G.F. Hill
(no. 333).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5618) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘
Northwest
Australia
.’’
In
addition to
Hill’s
original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the
holotype
bears a ‘‘
Figured’
’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1925a
: pl. 554, lower fig., opp. p. 98, text p. 99), where it is confirmed as the type of
broomei
.
The
following are
paratypes
:
Admiralty Gulf
,
AMNH 697019
(Mathews no. 12937), male,
17 November 1911
;
Mission Station
,
AMNH 697021
(5617), male,
6 January 1910
;
Mount Casuarina
,
AMNH 697022
(12934), male,
7 October 1911
;
AMNH 697023
(12933), male,
5 October 1911
;
King River
, males,
AMNH 697024
,
3 June 1911
;
AMNH 697025
(9845),
2 July 1911
;
AMNH 697026
(9847),
2 July 1911
;
Parry Creek
, males,
AMNH 697027
(3411),
3 November 1908
;
AMNH 697028
(3414),
3 November 1908
;
AMNH 697029
(3412),
2 November 1908
;
AMNH 697030
(3413),
31 October 1908
;
female,
AMNH 697031
(3415),
31 October 1908
;
Camp
17, male,
AMNH 697032
(12935),
17 September 1911
;
female,
AMNH 697033
(12936),
17 September 1911
.