Poephila nigrotecta, Hartert

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 : 108

Poëphila nigrotecta Hartert

Poëphila nigrotecta Hartert, 1899c: 59 (Cape York, Queensland).

Now Poephila cincta atropygialis Diggles, 1876 . See Hartert, 1919a: 142, Mayr et al., 1968: 360– 361; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 759–760; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 359.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 721657 , adult male, collected on Cape York Peninsula , Queensland, Australia, on 18 June 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1821). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but gave measurements for at least two specimens. Later, Hartert (1919a: 142) listed the male specimen bearing Meek’s no. 1821 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. There is one paralectotype, AMNH 721658, female, Cape York, 18 June 1898, A.S. Meek (no. 1824). Parker (1966: 121–122) investigated Meek’s collecting locality and found it to be the Chester River, 13.42S, 143.33E.