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 laetior normantoniensis
Salo-
monsen
Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis
Salomonsen, 1966a: 7
(Normanton, northwestern
Queensland
,
Australia
).
Now considered an intergrade between
M. g.
gularis
and
M. g.
laetior
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 398
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276– 277
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691532
, adult male, collected at
Normanton
,
17.40S
,
141.05E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
31 January 1914
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 3873).
From
the
Mathews Collection
via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Salomonsen
cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘
Northwestern
Queensland
, south of
Gulf
of Carpentaria.’’
The
following specimens are
paratypes
:
Leichhardt River
,
3 July 1910
,
AMNH 691529
, male
;
Normanton
, collected by
Kemp
in 1913 and 1914,
AMNH 691530
,
691531
,
691533–691542
,
five males
,
four females
, two sex?,
one juvenile
.
Salomonsen (1966a: 7)
doubtfully included specimens from the Cooktown and Cairns areas
; therefore they are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1). I did not find 691542, juv., in the collection.