Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus

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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Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus mallee Mathews

Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus mallee Mathews, 1913b: 192 (Mallee, Victoria).

Now Melithreptus brevirostris pallidiceps Mathews, 1912 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 691669 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Turner’s Well , mallee, South Australia (not Victoria), Australia, on 10 November 1911, by S.A. White (no. 376). From the Mathews Collection (10136) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Malee’’ (sic). The location of Turner’s Well is described by White (1913a:180) as being 25 miles from Ned’s Well (35.01S, 139.52E, USBGN, 1957). The holotype was the only mallee specimen collected by White that came to AMNH. I found only two additional mallee specimens in Mathews’ catalog and they are paratypes: AMNH 691652 About AMNH (Mathews no. 11659), female, collected at Schultz’s (5 Schuetze’s, as on label) Landing , South Australia, on 5 January 1912, obtained from E. Ashby and cataloged by Mathews as from ‘‘ Murray River’ GoogleMaps ’; AMNH 691671 About AMNH (15263), female, collected at Day Trap, Victoria, on 7 September 1912, from T. Tregellas. There are three possible paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews catalog and do not know when they came into his possession: AMNH 691667 About AMNH , 691668 About AMNH , females, 13 September 1910, Underbool, Victoria (both are also possible paratypes of submagnirostris, see above) ; AMNH 691670 About AMNH , female, near Kow , Victoria, on 9 September 1911, by F.E. Wilson .

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. 1913 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list. Austral Avian Record 1: 187 - 194.

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. 1913 a. Field ornithology in South Australia. In the Mallee. Emu 12: 179 - 180.