Aegintha temporalis loftyi 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 : 96-97

Aegintha temporalis loftyi Mathews

Aegintha temporalis loftyi Mathews, 1912a: 431 (Mt. Lofty, South Australia).

Now Neochmia temporalis temporalis (Latham, 1801) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 353; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 748–749; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 353–354.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721795 , adult female, collected in the Mount Lofty Range , 35.00S, 138.50E ( USBGN, 1957), east of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, on 22 September 1911, by S.A. White (no. 185). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9825) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of the form as South Australia. The holotype bears, in addition to the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. He had two additional specimens collected by White on the same day, paratypes: AMNH 721793 (Mathews no. 9824), AMNH 721794 (9823), males, Mount Lofty Range, 22 September 1911. A third specimen was in Mathews’ hand before the publication of his ‘‘Reference-list’’ in January 1912, and I have considered it also to be a paratype: AMNH 721796 (9944), female, Mount Lofty Range, on 19 October 1911, by White. It was cataloged by Mathews on 12 December 1911 as ‘‘ Aegintha lofti . ’’

For publication date of 1801 for Latham, see Schodde et al. (2010).