Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
Author
Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Entomophila borealis
H.L. White
Entomophila borealis
H.L. White, 1914: 187
(Macarthur River,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Grantiella picta
(Gould, 1838)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 435
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 308
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 691
.
SYNTYPE
:
AMNH 691805
, adult female, collected at McArthur Station,
16.27S
,
136.07E
(USBGN, 1957), McArthur River,
Northern Territory
,
Australia
, on
18 August 1913
, by H.G. Barnard. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: When naming this form, based on specimens collected by H.G. Barnard on the McArthur River, White said that it ‘‘appears to be a new sub-species of
Entomophila picta
.
I suggest the name of
Entomophila borealis
…,’’ thereby introducing it as a binomial. White did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had. AMNH 691805 has an H.L. White label filled in by H.G. Barnard, which Mathews marked ‘‘Cotype G.p. borealis White’’; the number ‘‘124’’ appears in red next to Barnard’s name and may be a field number. In addition to that label, the specimen bears a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ an AMNH type label filled in by hand unknown, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1924
: pl. 522, bottom fig., opp. p. 376, text p. 377), where it is said to represent
G. p.
borealis
but no type status is indicated. Mathews did not catalog this specimen. There are
two syntypes
in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.).