Neopoephila personata hilli 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 : 107

[ Neopoephila personata hilli Mathews ]

Mathews (1923: 41), in his original description of hilli, said that the type locality was Borroloola, Gulf of Carpentaria, and that hilli differed from watsoni ‘‘in being darker coloured. It is also slightly larger,’’ but gave no further particulars. There are two specimens from the Gulf of Carpentaria in AMNH, AMNH 721679 (Mathews no. 7309), male, and AMNH 721680 (7310), female, both received from T. Thorpe. Neither has further locality data or collector’s name and there is no additional data in Mathews’ catalog. I do not consider that they have type standing. This is another of the names that Mathews rushed to publish prior to volume 12 of his ‘‘Birds of Australia.’’ In that volume ( Mathews, 1926: 255), hilli is listed as a new subspecies, but it had already been published earlier. Mathews (1926: 253) quoted both Hill and Barnard as having observed these birds at Borroloola, but they did not mention a darker coloration. Now considered a synonym of Poephila personata personata .