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
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Entomyzon cyanotis apsleyi
Mathews
Entomyzon cyanotis apsleyi
Mathews, 1912b: 51
(Melville Island,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Entomyzon cyanotis albipennis
Gould, 1841
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 400
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 274–275
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 676
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691755
, adult male, collected at
Coopers Camp
,
Apsley Strait
,
Melville Island
,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
30 September 1911
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 2068).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10758) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description;
it bears
Rogers’
original label and
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels.
Mathews (1912b: 26)
, giving the range of
apsleyi
as ‘‘
Melville Island
,’’ noted that he had received two shipments of birds from there
;
these included specimens collected by
Rogers
at
Coopers Camp
in 1911.
The
following are
paratypes
: males,
AMNH 691751
(
Mathews
no. 11541), 29
November
;
AMNH 691752
(11542), 29
November
;
AMNH 691753
(10759), 2
October
;
AMNH 691754
(10760), 27
October
;
female,
AMNH 691757
(11544), 9
November. Mathews
specimen no. 11543, male, collected on 24
November
did not come to
AMNH
, and if found is also a
paratype
.
Salomonsen (1967: 400)
recognized
apsleyi
, but
Schodde and Mason (1999: 274–275)
and
Higgins et al. (2008: 676)
did not.
According to
Hart and Pilling (1964: 101)
, Coopers Camp was on Apsley Strait opposite the Bathurst Island Mission Station,
11.45S
,
130.41E
(Times Atlas).