Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 129-130

Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews

Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 48 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Pardalotus striatus melvillensis Mathews, 1912 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699030 , adult male, collected at Cooper’s Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 22 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2251). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10648) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of melvillensis as Melville Island . The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Mathews (1912b: 26) noted that Rogers had forwarded to him two collections from Melville Island ; these included specimens collected in 1911. The following specimens, all from Cooper’s Camp, Apsley Strait, are paratypes: AMNH 699029 ( Mathews no. 10652, Rogers no. 2489), male, 23 November 1911 ; AMNH 699031 (11560, 2606), male, 9 December 1911 ; AMNH 699032 (11561, 2617), male, 11 December 1911 ; AMNH 699033 (11559, 2551), male, 29 November 1911 ; AMNH 699035 (10650, 2249), female, 22 October 1911 ; AMNH 699036 (10651, 2250), female, 22 October 1911 ; AMNH 699039 (10649, 2235), unsexed, 20 October 1911 .