Manorina melanophrys tweedi Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 157

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scientific name	Manorina melanophrys tweedi Mathews
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Manorina melanophrys tweedi Mathews, 1925a: 33 (Tweed River, Northern New South Wales).

Now Manorina melanophrys (Latham, 1801) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 440, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 264–265, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 615–616.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697329 View Materials , adult female, collected on the Tweed River , 28.11S, 153.34E ( USBGN, 1957), New South Wales, Australia, on 16 August 1912, by P. Schrae- der. From the Mathews Collection (no. 15418) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: AMNH 697329 View Materials bears Schraeder’s original label, a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘ Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’ ’ and marked ‘‘figured,’’ and an AMNH type label filled in by Charles Vaurie (probably when Salomonsen was at AMNH working on the Meliphagidae ). The specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 545, lower fig., opp. p. 32, text p. 33), where tweedi is described and the figured specimen designated as the type. There are three paratypes, all collected on the Tweed River on 16 August 1912 by Schraeder: AMNH 697326 View Materials (Mathews no. 15415), male ; AMNH 697327 View Materials (15416), male ; AMNH 697328 View Materials (15417), female .