Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
Author
Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Myzantha flavigula alligator
Mathews
Myzantha flavigula alligator
Mathews, 1912a: 418
(Alligator River,
Northern Territory
).
Now
Manorina flavigula lutea
(Gould, 1840)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 442
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 269–273
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 617–618
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694462
, adult male, collected on the
South Alligator River
,
12.15S
,
132.24E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Northern Territory
, on
20 May 1903
, by
J.T. Tunney
(no. 1322).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5355) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
alligator
as ‘‘
Northern Territory
.’’ Apparently, Mathews had the single specimen; it bears Tunney’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Tunney’s collection was reported on by
Hartert (1905a)
and it was divided between Rothschild and WAM, with a subset sent to BMNH (
Hartert, 1905a: 194
). Mathews received his specimen from WAM, and the number 7459 on Tunney’s label is apparently a WAM number.