Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
Author
Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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0003-0090
Meliphaga versicolor clelandi
Mathews
Meliphaga versicolor clelandi
Mathews, 1915a: 132
(Cairn Cross Island, Barrier Reef).
Now
Lichenostomus versicolor versicolor
(Gould, 1843)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 376
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 236
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 601
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694715
, unsexed, collected on
Cairncross Island
,
Cairncross Islets
,
11.15S
,
142.56E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Queensland
,
Australia
, in
April 1902
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3208) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews had the single specimen from the Cairncross Islets, and he
gave no further range in the original description. There is no original label on the type; the Mathews Collection label bears his catalog number, although this was not mentioned in the original description, but there is no information either on the label or in the catalog concerning the collector. The number 774 that appears on this label refers to the number of the species in
Mathews (1908)
. The
holotype
also bears a Rothschild type label, filled in by hand unknown.