Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Neochmia phaeton iredalei
Mathews
Neochmia phaeton iredalei
Mathews, 1912a: 434
(
Queensland
(Rockhampton)).
Now
Neochmia phaeton phaeton
(Hombron and Jacquinot, 1841)
. See
Mayr et al., 1968: 357
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 750–751
;
Dickinson, 2003: 732
; and
Payne, 2010: 353
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 721882
, adult male, collected at
Rockhampton
,
23.23S
,
150.30E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Queensland
,
Australia
, in
July 1895
, obtained from
T. Thorpe. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 7304) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as north
Queensland
.
The
holotype
bears an original label and
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels.
The
following specimens are
paratypes
of
iredalei
:
Mackay
,
AMNH 721884
(Mathews catalog no. 6506), [female plumage]
;
Bowen
,
AMNH 721885
(7303), male,
AMNH 721886
(7306), male,
August 1898
, obtained from Thorpe.
AMNH 721883
(14602), male, Mackay,
June 1882
, was not cataloged by Mathews until
December 1912
, after the publication of
iredalei
. Other specimens from the Mathews collection have imprecise localities or no date and are not considered
paratypes
.