Melithreptus laetior northi 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 : 115

[ Melithreptus laetior northi Mathews ]

Melithreptus laetior northi Mathews, 1923b: 37 (Western Northern Territory).

In the original description of northi, Mathews did not designate an individual specimen as type, giving only the type locality as ‘‘Western Northern Territory’’ and no further statement as to range. There are no Mathews specimens from western Northern Territory in AMNH. Later, Mathews (1924: 267) expanded the range to include ‘‘adjoining parts of North-West Australia,’’ but this was not part of the original description.