Neochmia phaeton fitzroyi Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 102

Neochmia phaeton fitzroyi Mathews

Neochmia phaeton fitzroyi Mathews, 1912c: 120 (Fitzroy River, North-west Australia).

Now Neochmia phaeton phaeton (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1841) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 357; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 750–751; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 353.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721914 , adult male, collected on the Fitzroy River , 14 mi west of Mount Anderson, 18.01S, 123.55E ( USBGN, 1957), West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 18 July 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1885). From the Mathews Collection (9234) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of fitzroyi as northwest Australia. The holotype bears Rogers’ original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1926: 258, pl. 576, lower figure, opp. p. 257) ; it is there confirmed as the type of fitzroyi. Paratypes are: Napier Broome Bay , AMNH 721901 (Mathews no. 13030), AMNH 721902 (13031), males, 1 November 1911, AMNH 721903–721907 (5722–5726), three males, two females, 22 November 1909 – 30 April 1910 ; Parry Creek , AMNH 721912 (3569), male, AMNH 721913 (3568), female, 15 December 1908 ; Fitzroy River , AMNH 721915–721917 (9232, 9233, 9235), one male, two females, 18 July 1911, AMNH 921918 (5307), immature female, no date ; King River , AMNH 721919 (9856), male, 3 July 1911 ; Camp 20, AMNH 721920 (13029), male ; Camp 17, AMNH 721921 (13028), female (these specimens collected by L.M. Burns and received from C.P. Conigrave. See Whittell [1954: 166] for information on the Burns-Conigrave collection made out from Wyndham). Other specimens from northwest Australia were either never in the Mathews Collection or were cataloged after the 24 December 1912 publication date of fitzroyi .