Prosthemadera novae-seelandiae phoebe Kemp

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 : 169

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476103
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scientific name	Prosthemadera novae-seelandiae phoebe Kemp
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Prosthemadera novae-seelandiae phoebe Kemp, 1912: 124 (Umawera, Hokianga, North Island).

Now Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 448, Dickinson, 2003: 435, Higgins et al., 2008: 587, and Checklist Committee, 2010: 290–291.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693983 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Umawera , ca. 35.17S, 173.35E, Hokianga Harbour , North Island, New Zealand, in October 1907, by Robin Kemp. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Kemp gave the collecting locality and wing measurement (150 mm) of the type and said that it was in his possession. Hartert (1928: 204) listed this specimen as the type and noted that two Kemp specimens had come to the Rothschild Collection [with the Mathews Collection] with very different measurements and that only the type had an exact locality. Both of those specimens are now in AMNH and my measurements are almost the same as those of Hartert: 150 mm for the holotype and 142 mm for the unsexed specimen. The unsexed specimen has no original label and no exact locality, and there is no indication on Mathews’ label that he obtained it from Kemp; therefore, I do not consider that it has type status. The holotype bears Kemp’s original label, a Mathews type label with reference to Kemp’s description, and a Rothschild type label. I did not find it listed in Mathews’ catalog.

References

Checklist Committee. 2010. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, 4 th ed. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 500 pp., 4 maps.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Kemp, R. 1912. New subspecies of New Zealand birds. Austral Avian Record 1: 124.

Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.