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(
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(no. 785).
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the
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(no. 3012) via the
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in the original description, but apparently had a single specimen. The
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bears, in addition to an original label and Mathews and Rothschild
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labels, a Figured label which indicates that it was the model for
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: pl. 513, upper fig., opp. p. 283, text p. 284) where the figured specimen was said to be the
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of
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, thus confirming it as the
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. The Rothschild
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label is annotated with Mathews catalog number, although that was not given in the description, and opposite
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his catalog Mathews has written
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of alisteri. A second specimen of
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, AMNH
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691702, collected by Campbell on
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, was never in the Mathews Collection.
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wrote a report on the birds of King Island but did not say how many specimens he collected.
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recognized
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as a subspecies of
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;
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and
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considered
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monotypic.
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