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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Neopoephila personata watsoni
Mathews
Neopoephila personata watsoni
Mathews, 1917: 71
(Watson
River
, North
Queensland
).
Now
Poephila personata leucotis
Gould, 1847
. See
Mayr et al., 1968: 360
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 755–756
;
Dickinson, 2003: 732
; and
Payne, 2010: 358
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 721663
, adult male, collected on the
Watson River
,
13.20S
,
141.47E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Cape York Peninsula
, northern
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
22 July 1914
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave only the place and date of collection of the
type
. The above specimen is the only Watson
River
specimen from the Mathews Collection bearing the date of
22 July 1914
. It bears, in addition to a field label, Mathews and Rothschild
type
labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for
Mathews (1926: 252
, pl. 575, upper fig., opp. p. 251), where it is confirmed as the
type
of
watsoni
. This specimen, judging by the handwriting on the field label, was almost certainly collected by William R. Maclennan, who was collecting on the Watson
River
in
July 1914
(see
Macgillivray, 1917
–1918: 77–78).
There is a second specimen, also almost certainly collected by Maclennan, from the Watson
River
on
18 July 1914
, but because Mathews mentioned only the
holotype
and gave no indication that he had more than one specimen, I have not considered the second specimen a
paratype
. Neither specimen was cataloged by Mathews.