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. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Microeca flavigaster melvillensis Mathews Microeca flavigaster melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 39 (Melville Island, Northern Territory ). Now Microeca flavigaster flavigaster Gould, 1843 . See Mayr, 1986d: 559 , and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 375–377 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 604655 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait , 11.35S , 130.28E ( USBGN , 1957b), Melville Island , Northern Territory , Australia , on 29 September 1911 , by J.P. Rogers (no. 2058). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10692) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS : Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, gave the range of melvillensis as Melville Island , but did not say how many specimens he examined. The holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels in addition to a Rogers field label. Mathews (1912c: 26) commented that he had received two shipments of birds collected by Rogers on Melville Island ; these were cataloged by Mathews on 24 February 1912 and 20 March 1912 and are the specimens he had in hand when melvillensis was published on 2 April 1912 . Paratypes , all from Coopers Camp , are: males, AMNH 604656 (Mathews no. 10691) and 604661 (11593) ; and females, AMNH 604662–604666 (11591, 11592, 11594, 11595, and 10693). Mathews number 11596, an unsexed bird collected on 11 November 1911 , and also a paratype , did not come to AMNH .