Alisteranus cinctus maclennani 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 : 108

Alisteranus cinctus maclennani Mathews

Alisteranus cinctus maclennani Mathews, 1918: 159 (Watson River, North Queensland).

Now Poephila cincta atropygialis Diggles, 1876 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 360–361; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 759–760; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 359.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 721654 , adult male, collected on the Watson River, 13.20S, 141.47E ( USBGN, 1957), on 18 June 1914, by William R. Maclennan. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type of maclennani was a male from the Watson River, collected on 18 June 1914 by Maclennan. This did not serve to differentiate between two male specimens collected there on the same day. In addition to Maclennan’s field label, AMNH 721654 bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it served as the model for Mathews (1926: 247, pl. 574, lower fig., opp. p. 246), where it is stated that the figured male is the type of maclennani, thereby designating it the lectotype. A second male with a description ( Mathews, 1926: 247) is said to be the type of nigrotecta (see above), but is not figured. Mathews (1926: 249) noted that the upper figured bird in plate 574 is nominate cinctus from New South Wales. Paralectotypes of maclennani are: AMNH 721655, 18 June 1914, and AMNH 721656, 7 June 1914, males, Watson River, collected by Maclennan. The lecotype and two paralectotype of maclennani were apparently never cataloged by Mathews. An account of Maclennan’s stay on the Watson River is included in Macgillivray (1917 –1918: 77–78).