Zonaeginthus castanotis mungi Mathews

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 : 104

Zonaeginthus castanotis mungi Mathews

Zonaeginthus castanotis mungi Mathews, 1912a: 428 (North-West Australia (Mungi)).

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 720143 , adult male, collected on ‘‘ Marngle Creek ,’’ West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 2 June 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1726). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9231) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of the form as ‘‘Interior North-West Australia.’’ The type locality, given by Mathews as ‘‘Mungi,’’ was a locality he often used for specimens collected by Rogers in the area of the Fitzroy River. In fact, all of Rogers’ specimens collected at this time list only ‘‘Fitzroy River’’ as the locality in Mathews’ catalog. The locality on the label is ‘‘Marngle Creek,’’ which is apparently Mangle Creek 5 Manguel Creek, 17.49S, 123.39E (USBGN, 1957). With regard to this species, Rogers is quoted by Mathews (1925: 178): ‘‘In Derby this is a resident species…. Many hundreds of these birds watered at a mud spring near my camp at Marngle Creek. At Mungi they were also very common….’’ Paratypes are: Manguel Creek, AMNH 720144, male, 720145, female, 27 May 1911, by J.P. Rogers (nos. 1676, 1677). The female paratype is figured in Mathews (1925: 174, pl. 562, center fig., opp. p. 169).