Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
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2011
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Gliciphila melanops braba
Mathews
Gliciphila melanops braba
Mathews, 1912b: 49
(Kangaroo Island,
South Australia
).
Now
Gliciphila melanops melanops
(Latham, 1801)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 430
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 316–317
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 659
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 691882
, adult male, collected at
Middle River
,
35.41S
,
137.03E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Kangaroo Island
,
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
8 December 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 396).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 10204) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, giving the range as ‘‘
Kangaroo Island
.’’
Paratypes
are:
Tin Hut
, central island,
12 April 1912
,
AMNH 691878
(
Mathews
no. 12322),
AMNH 691879
(12323), males,
AMNH 691880
(12321),
AMNH 691881
(13093), females
;
Waterfall Creek
, 1911,
AMNH 691883
(10365), 4
December
, male,
AMNH 691884
(10203), 8
December
, male juvenile,
AMNH 691885
(10205), 4 December, female. An additional
paratype
is in
SAMA
(
B. Blaylock
, personal commun.)
.