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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Myzomela obscura munna
Mathews
Myzomela obscura munna
Mathews, 1912a: 397
(North
Queensland
(Cape
York
)).
Now
Myzomela obscura harterti
Mathews, 1911
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 692573
, adult male,
Cape
York, Queensland
, on
22 June 1898
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 1853).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3040) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Cape York’’.
AMNH 692570
, male, collected on Cape
York
,
30 August 1911
by J.P. Rogers (no. 1997) and cataloged by Mathews (no. 9809) on
27 November 1911
, is a
paratype
. AMNH 692574, male, collected on Cape
York
,
18 July 1898
by Meek (no. 1964) may also be a
paratype
, but I was unable to find it in Mathews’ catalog. Other Meek specimens collected on Cape
York
were never part of the Mathews Collection.
Parker (1966)
showed that Meek’s collectors were on the Chester River,
13.42S
,
143.33E
, when this
holotype
was collected.