Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Acanthagenys rufogularis queenslandicus
Mathews
Acanthagenys rufogularis queenslandicus
Mathews, 1912a: 421
(North
Queensland
).
Now
Acanthagenys rufogularis
Gould, 1838
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 445
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 295–296
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 618–619
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 696558
, said by
Mathews
to have been collected in northern
Queensland
,
Australia
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 7771) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
queenslandicus
as ‘‘North
Queensland
.’’ The specimen was cataloged by Mathews as a single specimen of this species from the J.A. Thorpe collection, but it no longer has an original label nor any other data on its existing labels. It bears a Mathews and a Rothschild type label and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1925a
, pl. 553, opp. p. 88, text p. 89), where it is confirmed as the type of
queenslandicus
. Based on the published description, it is the lower figure in the plate. Both figures in this plate are identified on the plate as females, and the specimen described in
Mathews (1925a: 89)
is said to be a female, but the specimen is sexed as a male in Mathews’ catalog. Although some of Thorpe’s specimens were collected on Cape
York
, the majority of them were from
New South Wales
, and I consider the ‘‘N. Queensland’’ entered by Mathews in his catalog to be questionable, given the absence of an original label. Other specimens in AMNH from the Rothschild Collection collected in north
Queensland
had never been in the Mathews Collection.