Cisticola exilis melvillensis Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 45

Cisticola exilis melvillensis Mathews

Cisticola exilis melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 43 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Cisticola exilis lineocapilla Gould, 1847 . See Lynes, 1930: 194–195, 647, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 711–712.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 593040 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 29 November 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 2546). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11329) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. He did not say how many specimens he examined, but he cataloged five specimens in addition to the holotype, all collected in 1911; they are paratypes AMNH 593041–593045 (Mathews nos. 11330–11334). There are two additional specimens collected at Coopers Camp on 7 March 1912, but I have not considered these paratypes as they apparently were not in Mathews’ hand when he cataloged the above specimens on 20 March. Mathews description of melvillensis was published on 2 April 1912. Specimens collected east of Gordon Point, Melville Island, in May and June 1912 were collected after the publication date .