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

Philemon argenticeps alexis Mathews

Philemon argenticeps alexis Mathews, 1912a: 422 (Alexandra, Northern Territory).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696998 , 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.

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 (Mathews no. 3416), sex ?; AMNH 696977 (3417), immature. AMNH 696999 , 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 .