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
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Melithreptus atricapillus augustus
Mathews
Melithreptus atricapillus augustus
Mathews, 1912a: 393
(Port Augusta,
South Australia
).
Now
Melithreptus brevirostris
intergrade between
pallidiceps
and
leucogenys
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 395
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 279– 281
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 673–674
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691647
, adult male, collected on the western slopes of the
Flinders Range
,
31.25S
,
138.45E
(
USBGN
, 1957), northeast of
Port Augusta
,
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
10 October 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 335).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10000) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range as ‘‘Port Augusta.’’ In addition to White’s original label, the
holotype
bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Three
paratypes
in AMNH are:
AMNH 691645
(Mathews no. 9997),
AMNH 691646
(9999), males,
AMNH 691648
(9998), female, all collected at the type locality on
10 October 1911
by White. There are no additional specimens of this form in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.).
White (1912: 129)
found it to be the commonest bird in the Flinders Range.
Salomonsen (1967: 395)
recognized
augustus
, but
Schodde and Mason (1999: 281)
considered
augustus
‘‘unidentifiable or misapplied’’ as specimens from the Flinders Range are from an intergrade zone between
pallidiceps
and
leucogenys
.