Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
Author
LeCroy, Mary
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Poëphila nigrotecta
Hartert
Poëphila nigrotecta
Hartert, 1899c: 59
(Cape
York
,
Queensland
).
Now
Poephila cincta atropygialis
Diggles, 1876
. See
Hartert, 1919a: 142
,
Mayr et al., 1968: 360– 361
;
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 759–760
;
Dickinson, 2003: 733
; and
Payne, 2010: 359
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 721657
, adult male, collected on
Cape York Peninsula
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
18 June 1898
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 1821).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but gave measurements for at least two specimens. Later,
Hartert (1919a: 142)
listed the male specimen bearing Meek’s no. 1821 as the type, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. There is one
paralectotype
,
AMNH 721658
, female, Cape
York
,
18 June 1898
, A.S. Meek (no. 1824).
Parker (1966: 121–122)
investigated Meek’s collecting locality and found it to be the Chester
River
,
13.42S
,
143.33E
.