Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475785
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scientific name	Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert
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Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert, 1905a: 235 (Brock’s Creek).

Now Myzomela obscura obscura Gould, 1843 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 352, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692480 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Brocks Creek , 13.28S, 131.25E ( USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, on 9 August 1902, by J.T. Tunney (no. R.635). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Tunney’s field number of the holotype in the original description and listed six additional specimens, which are paratypes. Of those, four are in AMNH: Brocks Creek , AMNH 692478 About AMNH (Tunney no. R.633), male, 7 August 1902 ; AMNH 692479 About AMNH (R. 637), male, 5 August 1902 ; AMNH 692481 About AMNH (R.636), female [changed to male on label], 7 August 1902 ; east of Mary River , AMNH 692482 About AMNH (736), male, 16 September 1902. Tunney’s collection was studied by Hartert and most of the specimens were divided between WAM and Rothschild, with a selection going to BMNH ( Hartert, 1905a: 194). Of the four paratypes in AMNH, two had been in the Mathews Collection. Mathews obtained AMNH 692479 About AMNH from WAM (it bears their number 7711) and cataloged it as his no. 5322. AMNH 692482 About AMNH had also been in the Mathews collection, but it is not clear from whom he obtained it. The two paratypes still unaccounted for bear Tunney numbers 634 from Brocks Creek and no. 735 from the South Alligator River .

References

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

Hartert, E. 1905 a. List of birds collected in northwestern Australia and Arnhem-land by Mr. J. T. Tunney. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 194 - 242.

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.

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.