Emblema picta clelandi Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 98-99

Emblema picta clelandi Mathews

Emblema picta clelandi Mathews, 1914a: 102 (Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Emblema pictum Gould, 1852 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 354; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 743; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 351.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720287 , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Roebuck Bay ,’’ Western Australia, Australia, on 12 December 1895, by Knut Dahl (no. 1492). From the Mathews Collection (11043) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews wrote his catalog number on his type label but did not cite it in the original description. He apparently had the single specimen.

Dahl collected in Australia in 1894–1896 and in 1912 Mathews acquired a large number of his specimens from R. Collett, ZMO, where they had been deposited. This holotype bears Dahl’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it had been illustrated in Mathews (1925: 183, pl. 563, opp. p. 182), where it is confirmed as the type of clelandi.

Dahl (1927: 272–306) recounted his adventures at Hill Station, 17.46 S, 122.13 E (USBGN, 1957), the locality at which the holotype of clelandi was collected. Hill Station was situated some miles north of Broome, along the shore.