Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-04-29 2011 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 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.) .