Emblema picta territorii Mathews

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 : 98

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4611897
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B4687A0-9E66-FFAE-FD6C-755CFC7515BE
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Emblema picta territorii Mathews
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Treatment

Emblema picta territorii Mathews, 1912a: 428 (Alexandra, Northern Territory).

Now Emblema pictum Gould, 1852 View in CoL . See Mayr et al., 1968: 354; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 743; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 351.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720303 View Materials , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.02S, 136.42E ( USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, in July 1905, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 59). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3478) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Northern Territory. He had an additional specimen from Northern Territory, paratype AMNH 720304 (Mathews no. 3477), female, collected at Alexandria in July 1905 by Stalker.

Stalker’s collection was made for Sir William Ingram and these two specimens were originally reported on by Collingwood Ingram (1907: 415).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Estrildidae
Genus	Emblema