Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 63-64

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Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 48 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Myzomela erythrocephala erythrocephala Gould, 1840 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 356, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 335–336, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 648–649.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692764 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island , Northern Territory, Austra- lia, on 18 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2213). From the Mathews Collection (10736) 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 . ’’ When he described this form, Mathews (1912b: 26) had received two shipments of Melville Island specimens from Rogers, including those specimens collected before the end of 1911. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 692762 About AMNH (Mathews no. 10735), male, 1 November ; AMNH 692763 About AMNH (10734) male, 30 October ; AMNH 692765 About AMNH (11598), male, 11 December ; AMNH 692769 About AMNH (10742), female, 2 October ; AMNH 692770 About AMNH (11600), female, 25 October ; AMNH 692771 About AMNH (?), female, 28 November ; AMNH 692772 About AMNH (11597), female, 22 November ; AMNH 692773 About AMNH (10740), female, 1 November ; AMNH 692774 About AMNH (11599), female, 20 November ; AMNH 692776 About AMNH (10741), sex?, 12 October ; AMNH 692777 About AMNH (10739), sex?, 4 October. AMNH 692771 About AMNH bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 515, opp. p. 305, text p. 312). Two specimens listed in Mathews’ catalog did not come to AMNH, and if found, are paratypes: Mathews no. 10737, female, 25 December 1911 (this entry was written over by data for another specimen, indicating that Mathews had exchanged it) ; and Mathews no. 10738, female, 12 October 1911.

Coopers Camp was across Apsley Strait from the mission station on Bathurst Island ( Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101). 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. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.

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.