Poephila personata belcheri Mathews

Poephila personata belcheri Mathews, 1911: 68 (Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia).

Now Poephila personata personata Gould, 1842 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 359–360; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 755–756; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 358.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721675, adult male, collected on Parry Creek, 15.32S, 128.09E (USBGN, 1957), 5 mi west of Trig. Station H.J. 9, East Kimberley, northern Western Australia, Australia, on 29 December 1908, by J.P. Rogers (no. 471). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3553) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the type and Parry Creek as the range. Later he (Mathews, 1912a: 434) added no new information but placed it in the genus Neochmia;

still later, he (Mathews, 1926: 251–255) placed it in the genus Neopoephila . Paratypes are: Parry Creek, AMNH 721676 (Mathews no. 3554), male, 5 January 1909 ; AMNH 721677 (3555), female, 30 September 1908; AMNH 721678 (3556), sex?, 30 September 1908, all collected by J.P. Rogers.