Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis, Salomonsen, 1966

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 115

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis
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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salo-

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salomonsen, 1966a: 7 (Normanton, northwestern Queensland, Australia).

Now considered an intergrade between M. g. gularis View in CoL and M. g. laetior View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276– 277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691532 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 31 January 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 3873). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Northwestern Queensland, south of Gulf of Carpentaria.’’ The following specimens are paratypes: Leichhardt River , 3 July 1910, AMNH 691529 About AMNH , male ; Normanton, collected by Kemp in 1913 and 1914, AMNH 691530 About AMNH , 691531 About AMNH , 691533–691542 About AMNH , five males, four females, two sex?, one juvenile. Salomonsen (1966a: 7) doubtfully included specimens from the Cooktown and Cairns areas ; therefore they are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1). I did not find 691542, juv., in the collection.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Melithreptus

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis

Salomonsen, F. 1966: 7
1966
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