Rhipidura setosa melvillensis Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 219

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777965
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scientific name	Rhipidura setosa melvillensis Mathews
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Treatment

Rhipidura setosa melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 90 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Rhipidura rufiventris isura Gould, 1841 View in CoL . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 538, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 486–487.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651246 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 30 September 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2067). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10642) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. The specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels in addition to Rogers’ field label. Paratypes, all collected by Rogers at Coopers Camp, are: AMNH 651247 About AMNH , male, 30 September 1911 ; AMNH 651248 About AMNH ( Mathews no. 10646), male, 27 October 1911 ; AMNH 651249 About AMNH (11743), male, 1 February 1912 ; AMNH 651253 About AMNH (11585), female, 11 November 1911 ; AMNH 651254 About AMNH (11584), female, 7 November 1911 ; AMNH 651255 About AMNH (11586), female, 27 November 1911 ; AMNH 651256 About AMNH (10644), female [immature], 27 October 1911 ; and AMNH 651257 About AMNH (10643), unsexed, 29 September 1911. R. s. melvillensis was published on 2 April 1912. All of the specimens from Coopers Camp were cataloged by Mathews before the date of publication except AMNH 651249 About AMNH , which was cataloged as a single specimen on 13 April 1912. Nevertheless, I have considered it a paratype. All specimens subsequently collected by Rogers on Melville Island were taken at different localities. AMNH 651247 About AMNH was collected on the same date as the holotype, but was not entered in Mathews’ catalog. Mathews frequently made only one entry when he had several specimens bearing the same data. Three Coopers Camp specimens that were cataloged by Mathews but did not come to AMNH are paratypes: Mathews number 10645, female, 30 October 1911 ; Mathews number 10647, male, 30 October 1911 ; and Mathews number 11587, male, 22 November 1911 .