Aegintha temporalis macgillivrayi Mathews

Aegintha temporalis macgillivrayi Mathews, 1914b: 13 (Claudie River, North Queensland).

Now Neochmia temporalis minor (A.J. Campbell, 1901) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 353; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 748–749; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 353–354.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721864, adult male, collected on the Claudie River, 12.50S, 143.21E (USBGN, 1957), northern Queensland, Australia, on 17 January 1914, by W. Macgillivray. From the Mathews Collection (no. 18473) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Apparently, Mathews had the single specimen as it is the only one that appears in his catalog. The specimen bears Macgillivray’s field label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this is the specimen illustrated in Mathews (1925, vol. 12, pt. 5, pl. 570, opp. p. 219). The type labels both bear Mathew’s catalog number, although it was not mentioned in the original description.

Macgillivray (1917 –1918) reported on this trip to the Claudie River.