Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki Mathews

Zonaeginthus castanotis roebucki Mathews, 1913a: 193 (Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia (coast)).

Now Taeniopygia castanotis (Gould, 1837) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 358; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 761–762; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720146, adult male, collected at Roebuck Bay, 18.04S, 122.17E (USBGN, 1957), northwestern Western Australia, Australia, on 12 December 1895, by Knut Dahl. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11044) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said that the range of the form was coastal northwestern Australia. Paratype: Roebuck Bay, AMNH 720147 (Mathews no. 11045), female, 12 December 1895, by Dahl.

Dahl had collected in Australia in 1894– 1896 and in his book (Dahl, 1927: 272–306) described his stay at Hill Station, 17.46S, 122.13E (USBGN, 1957), during which he collected these specimens. In 1912, Mathews obtained specimens collected by Dahl from R. Collett at ZMO (Mathews, 1912b: 25)