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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Myzantha flavigula clelandi
Mathews
Myzantha flavigula clelandi
Mathews, 1912a: 418
(Broome Hill, South-West
Australia
).
Now considered to be from a zone of intergradation between
Manorina flavigula wayensis
and
M. f.
obscura
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 441
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 269–273
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 617–618
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694521
, adult female, collected at
Broomehill
,
33.51S
,
117.38E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504
),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
18 September 1906
, by Thomas Carter. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3363) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range as ‘‘
South-West
Australia
.’’
The
holotype
bears
Carter’s
original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
Paratypes
are:
Broomehill
,
AMNH 694516
(Mathews no. 3362), male,
28 October 1906
;
AMNH 694522
(3364), female,
1 August 1908
;
AMNH 694524
(3365), immature,
27 December 1906
. The following were collected before the
31 January 1912
publication date of
clelandi
, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when he acquired them: Broomehill,
AMNH 694517
, male,
19 June 1910
,
AMNH 694518
, male,
4 July 1910
,
AMNH 694519
, male,
11 February 1911
;
Cranbrook
,
AMNH 694531
, female,
17 March 1910
. Other specimens were either never in Mathews’ Collection or were cataloged later
.
Salomonsen (1967: 441)
recognized
clelandi
,
Schodde and Mason (1999: 271)
considered it to come from a zone of intergradation, and
Higgins et al. (2008: 618)
treated it as a synonym of
M. f.
obscura
.