Myzomela erythrocephala kempi 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 : 64-65

Myzomela erythrocephala kempi Mathews

Myzomela erythrocephala kempi Mathews, 1912a: 396 (North Queensland (Cape York )).

Now intergradient between M. e. erythrocephala Gould, 1840 and M. e. infuscata Forbes, 1879. See Ford, 1983: 394–395, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 335–336, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 648–649.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692789 , adult male, collected on Cape York , northern Queensland, Australia, on 14 June 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1798). From the Mathews Collection (3022) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of kempi as ‘‘ North Queensland’ ’; the holotype bears, in addition to Meek’s label, Mathews Collection and type labels. An AMNH type label has been added. Apparently, Mathews had only two specimens from Queensland when he named this form. The paratype is AMNH 692793 , female, collected on Cape York on 17 June 1898 by Meek (no. 1818). The other specimens in AMNH collected by Meek were never in Mathews’ collection and other Mathews specimens from Cape York were collected after the publication of the name. Parker (1966) found that Meek’s collectors were based on the Chester River , 13.42S, 143.33E when these specimens were collected .