Conopophila albogularis melvillensis Mathews

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477549
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scientific name	Conopophila albogularis melvillensis Mathews
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Conopophila albogularis melvillensis Mathews, 1924: 389 (Cooper’s Camp, Apsley Straits, Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Conopophila albogularis (Gould, 1843) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 434, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 321–322, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 628.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692381 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, Mellville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 2 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2091). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10687) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews named this subspecies in his description of the adult male figured in Mathews (1924: pl. 523, bottom fig., opp. p. 388, text p. 389). It is the only Mathews specimen from Melville Island collected on 2 October 1911, and it bears Mathews’ ‘‘Figured’’ label, Rogers’ original label, and a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews.’’ It had not previously been recognized as a type.

Mathews (1924: 389) did not give a range for melvillensis, but he discussed all of Rogers’ Melville Island specimens of this form together and one may assume that he included all of the island in the range. The following Melville Island specimens are considered paratypes: Coopers Camp, AMNH 692380 About AMNH , 4 October 1911, male, AMNH 692382 About AMNH , 692383 About AMNH , 24 October–1 November 1911, females ; 10 miles southeast of Snake Bay , AMNH 692384–692391 About AMNH , 29 December 1911 – 5 January 1912, males, AMNH 692392–692394 About AMNH , 3–5 January 1912, females, AMNH 692395 About AMNH , 29 December 1911, sex ?.

Hart and Pilling (1964: 101) noted that Coopers Camp was across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island Mission Station, 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas).

References

Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.

Hart, C. W. M., and A. R. Pilling. 1964. The Tiwi of north Australia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 118 pp.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Mathews, G. M. 1924. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11, pts. 4 - 9. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 209 - 593, pls. 509 - 541.

Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.