Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Myzomela obscura harterti
Mathews
Myzomela obscura harterti
Mathews, 1911b: 100
(Cairns, N.
Queensland
).
Now
Myzomela obscura harterti
Mathews, 1911
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 692518
, adult male, collected at
Cairns
,
16.51S
,
145.43E
(Times Atlas), northern
Queensland
,
Australia
, in
July 1908
, by
P. Schraeder. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3036) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description;
the only locality mentioned was Cairns. In addition to Mathews’ collection label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the
holotype
also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it served as the model for
Mathews (1924
: pl. 517, opp. p. 330, text p. 331), where it is confirmed as the type of
M. o. harterti
. Mathews had three additional specimens collected by
Schraeder
at Cairns,
paratypes
AMNH 692516
(Mathews no. 3038), sexed as a female, but label changed to male,
August 1908
;
AMNH 592517
(3037), male,
August 1908
;
AMNH 592519
(3039), female,
July 1908
.
AMNH 692520
(16883) collected by
T.H. Bowyer Bower
at
Cairns
on
14 January 1885
, was not cataloged by
Mathews
until
15 May 1913
, long after the publication of
harterti
, and it is not a
paratype
.