Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
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Monarcha alecto campbelli
Mathews
Monarcha alecto campbelli
Mathews,
1912g
: 126
(
Cape
York
, North
Queensland
).
Now
Myiagra alecto wardelli
(Mathews, 1912)
. See
Watson et al., 1986c: 524
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 515–517
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 654548
, adult male, collected at
Utingu
,
Cape York
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
5 August 1912
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 1371).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 14278) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
:
Mathews
gave his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description.
In
addition to
Kemp’s
label, the specimen also bears
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels and a yellow ‘‘
Figured’
’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1921b
: pl. 409, opp. p. 79, text p. 80), and
Mathews
(p. 80) confirmed that the figured specimen is the type of
campbelli
.
Paratypes
are specimens collected by
Kemp
on
Cape
York
in July, August, and
September 1912
:
AMNH 654546
(Mathews no. 14163, Kemp no. 1316), male,
Peak Point
, 24
July
;
AMNH 654547
(14279, 1317), female,
Peak Point
, 24
July
;
AMNH 654549
(14870, 1561), female,
Utingu
, 6
September
;
and
AMNH 654550
(14689, 1370), female,
Utingu
, 5
August.
AMNH 654549
was also figured in plate 409.
Specimens
collected on
Cape
York
by
Kemp
in
October and November 1912
were not cataloged until
March 1913
and are not considered
paratypes
.
Utingu was a coconut plantation on
Cape
York
, opposite Possession Island,
10.43S
,
142.24E
(USBGN, 1957b) (
Jack, 1921: 342
, 739).
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Piezorhynchus alecto novae-guineensis