Dicaeum hirundinaceum yorki Mathews

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 114-115

Dicaeum hirundinaceum yorki Mathews

Dicaeum hirundinaceum yorki Mathews, 1912a: 387 (Cape York, Queensland).

Now Dicaeum hirundinaceum hirundinaceum (Shaw, 1792) . See Salomonsen, 1961a: 10–13, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 722, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 388.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697744 , adult male, collected on the Chester River , Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, on 16 June 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1808). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2849) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Queensland. The following Queensland specimens from the Mathews Collection that were entered in his catalog prior to 31 January 1912, the publication date of of yorki, are considered paratypes: AMNH 697712 ( Mathews no. 2854), unsexed, Beach Mountain , Inkerman , 25 April 1907 ; AMNH 697713 (2853), male, Mount Abbot , November 1907 ; AMNH 697718 (2859), female, Cairns , November 1908 ; AMNH 697748 (2848), Cape York, 27 July 1898. AMNH 697714 (10278), male, Barron River, 11 September 1910, was cataloged in February 1912 and is a possible paratype .

Meek’s Cape York collecting locality was on the Chester River at 13.42S, 143.33E ( Parker, 1966).