Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis 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 : 63-64

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scientific name	Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis Mathews
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Myzomela erythrocephala melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 48 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Myzomela erythrocephala erythrocephala Gould, 1840 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 356, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 335–336, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 648–649.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692764 View Materials , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island , Northern Territory, Austra- lia, on 18 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2213). From the Mathews Collection (10736) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of melvillensis as ‘‘ Melville Island . ’’ When he described this form, Mathews (1912b: 26) had received two shipments of Melville Island specimens from Rogers, including those specimens collected before the end of 1911. The following specimens are paratypes: AMNH 692762 View Materials (Mathews no. 10735), male, 1 November ; AMNH 692763 View Materials (10734) male, 30 October ; AMNH 692765 View Materials (11598), male, 11 December ; AMNH 692769 View Materials (10742), female, 2 October ; AMNH 692770 View Materials (11600), female, 25 October ; AMNH 692771 View Materials (?), female, 28 November ; AMNH 692772 View Materials (11597), female, 22 November ; AMNH 692773 View Materials (10740), female, 1 November ; AMNH 692774 View Materials (11599), female, 20 November ; AMNH 692776 View Materials (10741), sex?, 12 October ; AMNH 692777 View Materials (10739), sex?, 4 October. AMNH 692771 View Materials bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 515, opp. p. 305, text p. 312). Two specimens listed in Mathews’ catalog did not come to AMNH, and if found, are paratypes: Mathews no. 10737, female, 25 December 1911 (this entry was written over by data for another specimen, indicating that Mathews had exchanged it) ; and Mathews no. 10738, female, 12 October 1911.

Coopers Camp was across Apsley Strait from the mission station on Bathurst Island ( Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101). Bathurst Island Mission Station, 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas).