Stigmatops indistincta media 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 : 51

Stigmatops indistincta media Mathews

Stigmatops indistincta media Mathews, 1912a: 403 (Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia).

Now Lichmera indistincta indistincta (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 346, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694119 , adult male, collected at Parry Creek , 15.36S, 128.17E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), 5 miles west of Trig. station HJ9, East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 9 October 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 162). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3133) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North- West Australia (Wyndham).’’ Other specimens from Parry Creek collected in 1908 by J.P. Rogers are paratypes: AMNH 694118 (Mathews no. 3134), male, 2 September; AMNH 694120 (3138), male, 24 October; AMNH 694121 (3136, entered as 8 September), male, 8 October; AMNH 694122 (3137), male, 15 October; AMNH 694123 (3135), male, 14 October; AMNH 694124 (not found in catalog), female, 5 September; AMNH 694125 (3130), female, 8 September; AMNH 694126 (3131), female, 30 September; AMNH 695127 (3132), female, 8 October. Two specimens collected on the King River, south of Wyndham, were cataloged prior to the publication of the name on 31 January 1912; they are also paratypes: AMNH 694162 (Mathews no. 9858), male, 4 July, 50 miles south of Wyndham, by Conigrave; AMNH 695163 (9859), male, 6 July, by Burns. Other specimens collected by Burns and Conigrave in the area were not cataloged by Mathews until 24 February 1912, at which time the first two collections made by Rogers on Melville Island were also cataloged. Mathews (1912b: 26) said that the Rogers specimens had arrived after the publication of his ( Mathews, 1912a) reference list, wherein media was published.