Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki 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 : 105

Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki Mathews

Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki Mathews, 1913a: 193 (Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia (coast)).

Now Taeniopygia castanotis (Gould, 1837) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 358; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 761–762; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720146 , adult male, collected at Roebuck Bay , 18.04S, 122.17E ( USBGN, 1957), northwestern Western Australia, Australia, on 12 December 1895, by Knut Dahl. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11044) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said that the range of the form was coastal northwestern Australia. Paratype: Roebuck Bay, AMNH 720147 (Mathews no. 11045), female, 12 December 1895, by Dahl.

Dahl had collected in Australia in 1894– 1896 and in his book ( Dahl, 1927: 272–306) described his stay at Hill Station, 17.46S, 122.13E (USBGN, 1957), during which he collected these specimens. In 1912, Mathews obtained specimens collected by Dahl from R. Collett at ZMO ( Mathews, 1912b: 25)