Stigmatops indistincta 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 : 53-54

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475763
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scientific name	Stigmatops indistincta melvillensis Mathews
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Stigmatops indistincta melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 50 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Lichmera indistincta melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 347, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694082 View Materials , adult female, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 25 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2271). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10679) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said ( Mathews, 1912b: 26) that he had received two shipments of Melville Island birds from Rogers since the publication of his reference list (published 31 January 1912). Paratypes are birds collected at Coopers Camp by Rogers in October, November, and December 1911: AMNH 694074 View Materials (Mathews no. 10677), male ; AMNH 694075 View Materials (10676), male ; AMNH 694076 View Materials (10683), male ; AMNH 694078 View Materials (11608), male ; AMNH 694079 View Materials (11607), male ; AMNH 694080 View Materials (10678), male ; AMNH 694083 View Materials (11609), female ; AMNH 694084 View Materials (11610), female ; AMNH 694085 View Materials (10680), female ; AMNH 694087 View Materials (10682), unsexed. An unsexed specimen collected at Coopers Camp on 25 October 1911 was cataloged as no. 10681 by Mathews but did not come to AMNH. If found, it is also a paratype .

Coopers Camp was named for Joe Cooper, an Australian buffalo hunter, who lived on Melville Island from about 1900 to 1916. His home was on the eastern end of Apsley Strait, across from the Mission Station ( Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101). The Bathurst Island Mission Station is at 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas).