Melithreptus atricapillus subleucogenys 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 : 112

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scientific name	Melithreptus atricapillus subleucogenys Mathews
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Melithreptus atricapillus subleucogenys Mathews, 1912a: 394 (Lake Dundas, West Australia).

Now Melithreptus brevirostris leucogenys Milligan, 1903 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 395, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 279–281, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 673– 674.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691623 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Lake Dundas , 850 ft, 32.25S, 121.50E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 24 June 1905, by F.L. W[hitlock] (no. 8011). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5325) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews had a single specimen and cited its catalog number in the original description, giving the range as ‘‘Lake Dundas.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Whitlock’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels.

Salomonsen (1967: 395) synonymized subleucogenys with what he called augustus; Schodde and Mason (1999: 279–281) and Higgins et al. (2008: 673) included it in the range of leucogenys.

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.

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

Milligan, A. W. 1903. Notes on a trip to the Stirling Range. Emu 3: 9 - 19.

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.