Munia castaneothorax apsleyi 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 : 123

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627735
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scientific name	Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews
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Treatment

Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews, 1912b: 52 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Lonchura castaneothorax castaneothorax (Gould, 1837) View in CoL . See Mayr et al., 1968: 385; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 771–772; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 374.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721436 View Materials , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Straits,

Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 4 December 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2571). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11319) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENT: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and mentioned (p. 26) that Rogers had forwarded two shipments from Melville Island , which would have included specimens collected in 1911. The range of apsleyi was given as Melville Island ; the six specimens Mathews cataloged in March 1912 are considered his type series. The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was used as the model in Mathews (1925: pl. 565, lower fig., opp. p. 196, and p. 197) under Donacola castaneothorax , where the figured male is confirmed as the type of apsleyi. There are only four paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 721437 View Materials (Mathews no. 11322), AMNH 721438 View Materials (11321), AMNH 721439 View Materials (11323), males, AMNH 721440 View Materials (11320), female, all collected on 4 December 1911. Another specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 11324, male, 15 December 1911, if found, is also a paratype .

Hart and Pilling (1964: 101) gave the location of Coopers Camp as across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island Mission Station, 11.45S 130.41E (Times atlas).