Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Melithreptus gularis loftyi
Mathews
Melithreptus gularis loftyi
Mathews, 1912a: 392
(
South Australia
).
Now
Melithreptus gularis gularis
(Gould, 1837)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 397
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276–277
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691499
, adult sex?,
Mount Lofty Range
,
35.00S
,
138.50E
(
USBGN
, 1957), east of
Adelaide
,
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
24 July 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 16).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9302) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range of the form as ‘‘
South Australia
.’’ The
holotype
bears, in addition to the original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in
Mathews (1924
: pl. 512, middle fig., opp. p. 256, text p. 256), where it was confirmed as the type of ‘‘
lofti
’’(sic). Mathews had a single
paratype
of
loftyi
:
AMNH 691500
, female, collected in the Mount Lofty Range on
24 July 1911
by White (no. 17). White (1914: 8– 9) published a note on this form.