Acanthagenys rufogularis territori Mathews

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 : 163

Acanthagenys rufogularis territori Mathews

Acanthagenys rufogularis territori Mathews, 1912a: 420 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, 1838 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 445, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 295–296, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 618–619.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696555 , adult male, collected at Alexandria Spring (5 Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, on 30 October 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3395) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of territori as ‘‘ Northern Territory.’’ The holotype bears Stalker’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The number ‘‘812’’ on the reverse of Stalker’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). The head of this specimen was almost completely shot away. Ingram (1907: 414) listed this single specimen of A. rufogularis from the Alexandria area, and it was the only specimen Mathews had from Northern Territory.