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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Megalurus alisteri
Mathews
Megalurus alisteri
Mathews, 1912a: 345
(Napier Broome Bay, North-West
Australia
).
Now
Megalurus timoriensis alisteri
Mathews, 1912
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 597870
, adult male, collected at
Pago Mission
(
5
mission station, as on label),
14.10S
,
126.42E
(Times Atlas),
Napier Broome Bay
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
30 October 1909
, by
G.F. Hill. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5742) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mathews cited his catalog number in the original description. The
holotype
bears both a Mathews and a Rothschild type label;
also present is a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in
Mathews (1922a
: pl. 445, opp. p. 384, text p. 385), where the illustrated bird is confirmed as the type of
M. a.
alisteri
. In his catalog, Mathews listed
two specimens
from the same locality collected by
Hill.
AMNH 597871
(Mathews no. 5743), immature male collected on
13 May 1910
, is a
paratype
.
AMNH 597872
, an immature male collected by
Hill
at
Napier Broome Bay
on
17 June 1910
, is probably also a
paratype
although not found in
Mathews’
catalog
.
Hill (1911)
published information on his collecting localities and field notes. He was based for 10 months in 1909 and 1910 at the newly established mission station on Napier Broome Bay and collected between the bay and the Drysdale
River
. Hill gave the coordinates of the station as
14.06S
,
126.40E
, today known as Pago Mission.