Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Neositta pileata milligani
Mathews
Neositta pileata milligani
Mathews, 1912a: 380
(West
Australia
(East Murchinson)).
Now
Daphoenositta chrysoptera pileata
(Gould, 1838)
.
See
Mayr, 1950: 283
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430
, and
Noske, 2007a: 640–641
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 684270
, adult female, collected at
Lake Way
,
26.50S
,
120.25E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509
),
East Murchison
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
25 August 1909
, by F. L[awson] W[hitlock].
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3974) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
milligani
as ‘‘Mid Westralia.’’
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 684268
(Mathews no. 3816), male,
Day Dawn
,
1400 ft
,
22 July 1903
, F.L. [Whitlock], originally from
WAM
(no. 5837)
;
AMNH 684269
(3815), female,
Day Dawn
,
1400 ft
,
13 July 1903
, F.L. [Whitlock], originally from
WAM
(no. 5830)
;
and
AMNH 684275
(3973), male,
E. Murchison
, F.L.W[hitlock].
Mathews
also cataloged as no. 3974, a female, collected in
E. Murchison
on
25 August 1909
;
this
paratype
did not come to
AMNH
.
Whitlock (1910)
published an account of his itinerary and collecting localities in the East Murchison
River
drainage in 1909.