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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Munia pectoralis incerta
Mathews
Munia pectoralis incerta
Mathews, 1912a: 430
(Alexandra [sic],
Northern Territory
).
Now
Heteromunia pectoralis
(Gould, 1841)
. See
Mayr et al., 1968: 387
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 774
;
Dickinson, 2003: 736
; and
Payne, 2010: 351
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 721521
, adult male, collected at
Alexandria
,
19.02S
,
136.42E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
2 January 1906
, by
Wilfred Stalker
(no. 104).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3517) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
. The
holotype
bears, in addition to Stalker’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, showing that it served as the model for
Mathews (1925
, pl. 568, lower fig., opp. p. 213, text p. 214) where it is confirmed as the type of
incerta
.
As shown by his catalog, Mathews received three specimens from Alexandria. Two
paratypes
are:
AMNH 721520
(Mathews no. 3514), male,
February 1906
, and
AMNH 721522
(3513), female,
2 January 1906
). Stalker’s collection at Alexandria was made for Sir William Ingram, reported on by his son, Collingwood
Ingram (1907
,
1909
), and later purchased by Mathews. Mathews’ three specimens were listed by
Ingram (1907: 415
;
1909: 618
) as the only specimens of this species collected by Stalker. Mathews gave the range of
incerta
as ‘‘
Northern Territory
.’’ Three additional specimens from the Mathews Collection were collected early enough to be available to Mathews for the description.
AMNH 721518
was collected at Port Essington, ‘‘North Queensland’’ in
July 1883
and cataloged (no. 7313) with the Thorpe Collection in
February 1911
. Mathews probably quickly realized that Port Essington was in
Northern Territory
and changed his label. I consider it a
paratype
of
incerta
. AMNH 721519 was collected on the Mary
River
in
May 1895
by Knut Dahl, but was not received from ZMO until after the publication of the name (
Mathews, 1912b: 25
); The third specimen, AMNH 721523, was the only one collected at Eureka on
7 January 1903
by J.T. Tunney (no. 1022) (Hartert, 1905: 238), but it was never in the Mathews Collection even though it bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label and was illustrated in
Mathews (1925
: pl. 568, upper fig., opp. p. 213, pp. 213–214 of text), apparently borrowed by Mathews for the purpose. These last two specimens are not
paratypes
of
incerta
.
Mathews (1913b: 60)
introduced the generic name
Heteromunia
, with
Amadina pectoralis
Gould
as its
type
species.