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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Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami
Mathews
Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami
Mathews, 1912a: 378
(
Northern Territory
(Tanami)).
Now
Aphelocephala nigricincta
(North, 1895)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 459
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 222
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 683515
, adult female, collected on the
Tanami Gold Field
,
1300 ft
,
19.58S
,
129.42E
(
Storr, 1977: 113
),
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
27 March 1910
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 5).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 4993) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description. It bears Rogers’ label, Mathews Collection and type labels, and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1923c
: pl. 494, lower fig., opp. p. 37, text p. 43), where it is confirmed as the type of
tanami
. The number ‘‘691’’ that appears on two of the labels refers to the number of this species in
Mathews (1908a)
. An AMNH type label has been added. AMNH 683515 was apparently Mathews’ only specimen of
tanami
.
INCERTAE SEDIS
The genera
Epthianura
and
Ashbyia
are now generally considered to be members of the
Meliphagidae
, subfamily
Epthianurinae
. See
Schodde and Mason (1999: 224)
for a discussion and also for a note concerning the original spelling
Epthianura
. More recently, del
Hoyo et al. (2007: 612–626)
have considered these genera to comprise a distinct family. Because Peters’
Check-list
Volume 12, which includes the
Meliphagidae
, was published in 1967, prior to the publication of Volume 11 (1986), it was necessary to include these genera with the
Acanthizidae
, where they had previously been placed. In order to avoid the possibility of omitting them and to maintain consistency with reference to Peters’
Check-list
sequence, they are included here.