Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
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2011
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Ptilotis unicolor brenda
Mathews
Ptilotis unicolor brenda
Mathews, 1912b: 50
(Melville Island,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Lichenostomus unicolor
(Gould, 1843)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 386
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 238
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 601–602
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695762
, adult male, collected at
Coopers Camp
,
Apsley Strait
,
Melville Island
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
10 October 1911
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 2155).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10746) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range of the form as ‘‘
Melville Island
.’’
Mathews (1912b: 26)
noted that
Rogers
had sent him two shipments of specimens from
Melville Island
;
these would include specimens collected at Coopers Camp in 1911.
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 695757– 695761
,
695763–695769
(Mathews nos. 10745, 10748, 10749, 11507–11515). The specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 10747, female, collected
27 October 1911
, did not come to
AMNH
and if found, is also a
paratype
.
Coopers Camp was said by
Hart and Pilling (1964: 101)
to have been across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island Mission Station,
11.45S
,
130.41E
(Times Atlas).