Melithreptus lunatus subalbogularis 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 : 113-114

Melithreptus lunatus subalbogularis Mathews

Melithreptus lunatus subalbogularis Mathews, 1912a: 392 (North-West Australia (Derby)).

Now Melithreptus albogularis albogularis Gould, 1848 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 396, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 282–283, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 674–675.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691300 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.15S, 123.44E ( USBGN, 1957), King Sound, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 15 February 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1288). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8478) 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 ‘‘North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are five paratypes in AMNH: Derby, AMNH 691295 (Mathews no. 8872), male, AMNH 691296 (8873), female, 7 May 1911 ; Point Torment, AMNH 691299 (8480), male, 14 February 1911 ; AMNH 691301 (8726), male, 3 April 1911 ; AMNH 691302 (8477), female, 15 February 1911. AMNH 691292 , collected at Derby by T.H. Bowyer-Bower in 1886, was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913, after the publication of subalbogularis. Other specimens in AMNH from the area of King Sound were never in the Mathews Collection .

Salomonsen (1967: 396) recognized subalbogularis; Schodde and Mason (1999: 283) and Higgins et al. (2008: 674) included it in nominate albogularis .