Bathilda ruficauda clarescens Hartert, 1899

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 103

Bathilda ruficauda clarescens Hartert

Bathilda ruficauda clarescens Hartert, 1899b: 427 (Cape York).

Now Neochmia ruficauda clarescens (Hartert, 1899) . See Hartert, 1919a: 142; Mayr et al., 1968: 357; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 752–753; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 354.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721934 , adult male, collected on Cape York Peninsula , north Queensland, Australia, on 14 June 1898, by collectors for Albert S. Meek (no. 1794). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert apparently had the single specimen; he noted on the Rothschild type label that the specimen was collected by ‘‘ Eichhorn,’’ one of the Eichhorn brothers who collected with Meek for many years. Parker (1966: 121–122) investigated Meek’s collecting locality on Cape York and found it to be the Chester River, 13.42S, 143.33E .