Melithreptus atricapillus augustus 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 : 111

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475945
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scientific name	Melithreptus atricapillus augustus Mathews
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Melithreptus atricapillus augustus Mathews, 1912a: 393 (Port Augusta, South Australia).

Now Melithreptus brevirostris View in CoL intergrade between pallidiceps and leucogenys. 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 691647 About AMNH , adult male, collected on the western slopes of the Flinders Range , 31.25S, 138.45E ( USBGN, 1957), northeast of Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia, on 10 October 1911, by S.A. White (no. 335). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10000) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range as ‘‘Port Augusta.’’ In addition to White’s original label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Three paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 691645 (Mathews no. 9997), AMNH 691646 (9999), males, AMNH 691648 (9998), female, all collected at the type locality on 10 October 1911 by White. There are no additional specimens of this form in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.). White (1912: 129) found it to be the commonest bird in the Flinders Range.

Salomonsen (1967: 395) recognized augustus, but Schodde and Mason (1999: 281) considered augustus ‘‘unidentifiable or misapplied’’ as specimens from the Flinders Range are from an intergrade zone between pallidiceps and 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.

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.

White, S. A. 1912. Field ornithology in South Australia. Port Augusta District. Emu 12: 122 - 130.