Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis
Mathews
Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis
Mathews, 1912a: 391
(Adelaide,
South Australia
).
Now
Melithreptus lunatus lunatus
(Vieillot, 1802)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 395
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 284–285
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 675
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691488
, unsexed, collected at
Adelaide
,
34.56S
,
138.36E
(Times Atlas),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
20 June 1897
, collector unknown.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 2938) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews included his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, giving the range of the form as
South Australia
. The original label is missing from the
holotype
. Mathews’ collection label bears his catalog number, the number ‘‘733’’ on this label referring to the number of the species in
Mathews (1908)
;
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels are also attached.
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 691486
(
Mathews
no. 9699), adult male,
AMNH 691487
(9700), female,
Mount Lofty Range
,
12 August 1911
,
S.A. White
;
AMNH 691489
,
691490
(2939), unsexed,
Adelaide
,
July 1902
;
AMNH 691497
(2940),
691498
, unsexed,
Scotts Creek
,
29 January 1898
.
An
additional
paratype
is in
SAMA
(
B. Blaylock
, personal commun.)
.