Neochmia personata harterti Mathews

Neochmia personata harterti Mathews, 1912a: 434 (North-West Australia (Napier Broome Bay)).

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 721671, adult male, collected at Napier Broome Bay, 14.02S, 126.37E (USBGN, 1957) northwestern Western Australia, Australia, on 16 December 1909, by G.F. Hill (no. 150). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5733) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the type and the range as ‘‘ North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1926: 252, pl. 575, bottom fig., opp. p. 251), where it is confirmed as the type of harterti . Paratypes are: Napier Broome Bay, AMNH 721672 (Mathews no. 5732), male, 16 December 1909 ; AMNH 721673 (6223), sex?, 30 June 1910, both collected by Hill.