Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen

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 : 116

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475969
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scientific name	Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen
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Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen, 1966a: 8 (Exmouth Gulf, mid-Western Australia).

Now Melithreptus gularis laetior Gould, 1875 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276–277, Christidis and Boles, 2008 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691546 View Materials , adult male, collected at Exmouth Gulf , 22.20S, 114.09E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, Australia, on 21 June 1902, by Thomas Carter. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that parus was known only from the type locality. A second specimen from Exmouth Gulf, AMNH 691545, male, collected on the same day by Carter, is a paratype.