Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis
Mathews
Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis
Mathews, 1912b: 48
(Melville Island,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Myzomela erythrocephala erythrocephala
Gould, 1840
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 356
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 335–336
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 648–649
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 692764
, adult male, collected at
Coopers Camp
,
Apsley Strait
,
Melville Island
,
Northern Territory
, Austra- lia, on
18 October 1911
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 2213).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(10736) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
melvillensis
as ‘‘
Melville Island
.
’’
When
he described this form,
Mathews (1912b: 26)
had received two shipments of
Melville Island
specimens from
Rogers
, including those specimens collected before the end of 1911.
The
following specimens are
paratypes
:
AMNH 692762
(Mathews no. 10735), male, 1 November
;
AMNH 692763
(10734) male, 30 October
;
AMNH 692765
(11598), male, 11 December
;
AMNH 692769
(10742), female, 2 October
;
AMNH 692770
(11600), female, 25 October
;
AMNH 692771
(?), female, 28 November
;
AMNH 692772
(11597), female, 22 November
;
AMNH 692773
(10740), female, 1 November
;
AMNH 692774
(11599), female, 20 November
;
AMNH 692776
(10741), sex?, 12 October
;
AMNH 692777
(10739), sex?, 4 October.
AMNH 692771
bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1924
: pl. 515, opp. p. 305, text p. 312). Two specimens listed in Mathews’ catalog did not come to
AMNH
, and if found, are
paratypes
: Mathews no. 10737, female,
25 December 1911
(this entry was written over by data for another specimen, indicating that Mathews had exchanged it)
; and Mathews no. 10738, female,
12 October 1911
.
Coopers Camp was across Apsley Strait from the mission station on Bathurst Island (
Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101
). Bathurst Island Mission Station,
11.45S
,
130.41E
(Times Atlas).