Microeca flavigaster 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 : 239

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12778065
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scientific name	Microeca flavigaster melvillensis Mathews
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Microeca flavigaster melvillensis Mathews, 1912c: 39 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Microeca flavigaster flavigaster Gould, 1843 View in CoL . See Mayr, 1986d: 559, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 375–377.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 604655 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 29 September 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2058). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10692) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, gave the range of melvillensis as Melville Island , but did not say how many specimens he examined. The holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels in addition to a Rogers field label. Mathews (1912c: 26) commented that he had received two shipments of birds collected by Rogers on Melville Island ; these were cataloged by Mathews on 24 February 1912 and 20 March 1912 and are the specimens he had in hand when melvillensis was published on 2 April 1912. Paratypes, all from Coopers Camp, are: males, AMNH 604656 About AMNH (Mathews no. 10691) and 604661 (11593) ; and females, AMNH 604662–604666 About AMNH (11591, 11592, 11594, 11595, and 10693). Mathews number 11596, an unsexed bird collected on 11 November 1911, and also a paratype, did not come to AMNH .