Myzomela obscura munna Mathews

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Myzomela obscura munna Mathews

Myzomela obscura munna Mathews, 1912a: 397 (North Queensland (Cape York )).

Now Myzomela obscura harterti Mathews, 1911 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692573 , adult male, Cape York, Queensland, on 22 June 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1853). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3040) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Cape York’’. AMNH 692570, male, collected on Cape York, 30 August 1911 by J.P. Rogers (no. 1997) and cataloged by Mathews (no. 9809) on 27 November 1911, is a paratype. AMNH 692574, male, collected on Cape York, 18 July 1898 by Meek (no. 1964) may also be a paratype, but I was unable to find it in Mathews’ catalog. Other Meek specimens collected on Cape York were never part of the Mathews Collection.

Parker (1966) showed that Meek’s collectors were on the Chester River, 13.42S, 143.33E, when this holotype was collected.