Monarcha alecto 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 : 212

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777945
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9ECC-10D4-FF4F-4C270FA5FC17
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scientific name	Monarcha alecto melvillensis Mathews
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Treatment

Monarcha alecto melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 42 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Myiagra alecto melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 515–517, and Schodde and Dickinson, 2005.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 654570 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 21 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2245). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10828) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Rogers’ label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes, all from Coopers Camp and cataloged by Mathews on 20 March or 24 February 1912, are: AMNH 654569 About AMNH (Mathews no.?), 21 October 1911 ; AMNH 654571 About AMNH (Mathews no. 10829), male, 28 October 1911 ; AMNH 654572 About AMNH and 654573 (10825 and 10826), females, 24 October 1911 ; AMNH 654574 About AMNH (11589), female, 15 November 1911 ; and AMNH 654575 About AMNH (11590), female, 11 November 1911. Two other possible paratypes, also from Coopers Camp, are: AMNH 654568 About AMNH , male, 9 February 1912 but not found in Mathews’ catalog ; and AMNH 654576 About AMNH (11744), female, 30 January 1912, but not cataloged until 13 April 1912. AMNH 654569 About AMNH was exchanged to FMNH .

The following specimens from Coopers Camp and cataloged by Mathews apparently did not come to AMNH. If found, they would also be paratypes of Monarcha alecto melvillensis : Mathews number 10824, female, 28 October 1911 ; Mathews number 10827, male, 18 October 1911; and Mathews number 11588, sex not listed, 15 November 1911.