Philemon argenticeps alexis 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 : 127

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475999
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scientific name	Philemon argenticeps alexis Mathews
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Philemon argenticeps alexis Mathews, 1912a: 422 (Alexandra, Northern Territory).

Now Philemon argenticeps argenticeps (Gould, 1840) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 411, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 291, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 682.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696998 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, on 2 November 1905, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 86). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3418) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of alexis as ‘‘ Northern Territory.’’ The type bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and Stalker’s original label, the number ‘‘816’’ referring to the number of this species in Mathews (1908) ; it was the single specimen collected by Stalker at Alexandria ( Ingram, 1908: 414). Two additional Mathews specimens are paratypes: Port Darwin , April 1902, AMNH 696976 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3416), sex ?; AMNH 696977 About AMNH (3417), immature. AMNH 696999 About AMNH , collected by K. Dahl on Mount Shortridge in 1894 was not cataloged by Mathews until February 1912, after the publication of alexis. Other Northern Territory specimens in AMNH were never in the Mathews Collection .

References

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

Ingram, C. 1908. On the birds of Inkerman Station, north Queensland. Ibis (9) 2: 458 - 481, pl. IX.

Mathews, G. M. 1908. Handlist of the birds of Australasia. Emu 7 supplement: 1 - 108.

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

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.