Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Stigmatops indistincta media
Mathews
Stigmatops indistincta media
Mathews, 1912a: 403
(Parry’s Creek, North-West
Australia
).
Now
Lichmera indistincta indistincta
(Vigors and Horsfield, 1827)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 346
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694119
, adult male, collected at
Parry Creek
,
15.36S
,
128.17E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512
),
5 miles
west of
Trig. station
HJ9,
East Kimberley
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
9 October 1908
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 162).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3133) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North- West
Australia
(Wyndham).’’ Other specimens from Parry Creek collected in 1908 by J.P. Rogers are
paratypes
:
AMNH 694118
(Mathews no. 3134), male, 2 September;
AMNH 694120
(3138), male, 24 October;
AMNH 694121
(3136, entered as 8 September), male, 8 October;
AMNH 694122
(3137), male, 15 October;
AMNH 694123
(3135), male, 14 October;
AMNH 694124
(not found in catalog), female, 5 September;
AMNH 694125
(3130), female, 8 September;
AMNH 694126
(3131), female, 30 September;
AMNH 695127
(3132), female, 8 October. Two specimens collected on the King River, south of Wyndham, were cataloged prior to the publication of the name on
31 January 1912
; they are also
paratypes
:
AMNH 694162
(Mathews no. 9858), male, 4 July,
50 miles
south of Wyndham, by Conigrave;
AMNH 695163
(9859), male, 6 July, by Burns. Other specimens collected by Burns and Conigrave in the area were not cataloged by Mathews until
24 February 1912
, at which time the first two collections made by Rogers on Melville Island were also cataloged.
Mathews (1912b: 26)
said that the Rogers specimens had arrived after the publication of his (
Mathews, 1912a
) reference list, wherein
media
was published.