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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Philemon argenticeps alexis
Mathews
Philemon argenticeps alexis
Mathews, 1912a: 422
(Alexandra,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Philemon argenticeps argenticeps
(Gould, 1840)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 411
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 291
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 682
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 696998
, adult female, collected at
Alexandria
(
5
Alexandra),
19.00S
,
136.42E
(Times Atlas),
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
2 November 1905
, by
Wilfred Stalker
(no. 86).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3418) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, giving the range of
alexis
as ‘‘
Northern Territory
.’’
The
type bears
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels and
Stalker’s
original label, the number ‘‘816’’ referring to the number of this species in
Mathews (1908)
;
it was the single specimen collected by
Stalker
at
Alexandria
(
Ingram, 1908: 414
).
Two
additional
Mathews
specimens are
paratypes
:
Port Darwin
,
April 1902
,
AMNH 696976
(Mathews no. 3416), sex
?;
AMNH 696977
(3417), immature.
AMNH 696999
, collected by
K.
Dahl
on Mount Shortridge in 1894 was not cataloged by
Mathews
until
February 1912
, after the publication of
alexis
.
Other
Northern Territory
specimens in
AMNH
were never in the Mathews Collection
.