Stigmatops indistincta rufescens 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 : 51

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475755
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scientific name	Stigmatops indistincta rufescens Mathews
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Stigmatops indistincta rufescens Mathews, 1912a: 402 (Northern Territory (Crawford Springs)).

Now Lichmera indistincta indistincta (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 346, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694094 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Crawford Springs , Northern Territory, Australia, on 4 July 1902, by J.T. Tunney (no. R. 664). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5344) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Northern Territory.’’ Mathews apparently did not have other Northern Territory specimens when he named rufescens because specimens collected there by K. Dahl in 1894 were not sent to him by Professor R. Collett, ZMO, until after its publication ( Mathews, 1912b: 25). The holotype was one of a number of specimens of various species that Mathews acquired from the WAM and cataloged in September 1910. The number ‘‘7721’’ on the original label is probably a WAM number ; the significance of the number ‘‘821’’ on this label is not known. It bears, in addition to the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels with Mathews’ catalog number, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 527, opp. p. 419, text p. 421), where it is confirmed as the type of rufescens.

Tunney’s complete collection was reported on by Hartert (1905a), where this specimen is listed under Stigmatops ocularis (No. R. 664). After publication of Hartert’s article, the collection was divided among WAM, Rothschild, and BMNH. Mathews’ specimen came from the WAM portion of this collection. A Rothschild specimen in AMNH collected by J.T. Tunney on the Alligator River was never in the Mathews Collection.

According to Storr (1966: 63), Tunney was at Crawford Springs, 16.16S, 130.57E, on 4 July, which locality is 9 miles NNW of Victoria River Downs. This is the same locality listed as Crawford Waterhole (USBGN, 1957).

Deignan (1964b: 419–420) discussed this type specimen, noting that it had been preserved in alcohol and had lost lipochrome pigmentation.

References

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

Deignan, H. G. 1964 b. Birds of the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American Australian Scientific Expedition in Arnhem Land 4 (5): 345 - 425.

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.

Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.

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.

Storr, G. M. 1966. J. T. Tunney's itinerary in northern Australia 1901 - 1903. Emu 66: 59 - 65.