Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami 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 : 184

Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami Mathews

Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami Mathews, 1912a: 378 (Northern Territory (Tanami)).

Now Aphelocephala nigricincta (North, 1895) . See Mayr, 1986b: 459, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 222.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 683515 , adult female, collected on the Tanami Gold Field , 1300 ft, 19.58S, 129.42E ( Storr, 1977: 113), Northern Territory, Australia, on 27 March 1910, by J.P. Rogers (no. 5). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4993) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It bears Rogers’ label, Mathews Collection and type labels, and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923c: pl. 494, lower fig., opp. p. 37, text p. 43), where it is confirmed as the type of tanami . The number ‘‘691’’ that appears on two of the labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908a). An AMNH type label has been added. AMNH 683515 was apparently Mathews’ only specimen of tanami .

INCERTAE SEDIS

The genera Epthianura and Ashbyia are now generally considered to be members of the Meliphagidae , subfamily Epthianurinae . See Schodde and Mason (1999: 224) for a discussion and also for a note concerning the original spelling Epthianura . More recently, del Hoyo et al. (2007: 612–626) have considered these genera to comprise a distinct family. Because Peters’ Check-list Volume 12, which includes the Meliphagidae , was published in 1967, prior to the publication of Volume 11 (1986), it was necessary to include these genera with the Acanthizidae , where they had previously been placed. In order to avoid the possibility of omitting them and to maintain consistency with reference to Peters’ Check-list sequence, they are included here.