Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus

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 : 111

Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus mallee Mathews

Melethreptus (sic) atricapillus mallee Mathews, 1913b: 192 (Mallee, Victoria).

Now Melithreptus brevirostris pallidiceps Mathews, 1912 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 395, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 279–281, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 673– 674.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691669 , adult female, collected at Turner’s Well , mallee, South Australia (not Victoria), Australia, on 10 November 1911, by S.A. White (no. 376). From the Mathews Collection (10136) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Malee’’ (sic). The location of Turner’s Well is described by White (1913a:180) as being 25 miles from Ned’s Well (35.01S, 139.52E, USBGN, 1957). The holotype was the only mallee specimen collected by White that came to AMNH. I found only two additional mallee specimens in Mathews’ catalog and they are paratypes: AMNH 691652 (Mathews no. 11659), female, collected at Schultz’s (5 Schuetze’s, as on label) Landing , South Australia, on 5 January 1912, obtained from E. Ashby and cataloged by Mathews as from ‘‘ Murray River’ ’; AMNH 691671 (15263), female, collected at Day Trap, Victoria, on 7 September 1912, from T. Tregellas. There are three possible paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews catalog and do not know when they came into his possession: AMNH 691667 , 691668 , females, 13 September 1910, Underbool, Victoria (both are also possible paratypes of submagnirostris, see above) ; AMNH 691670 , female, near Kow , Victoria, on 9 September 1911, by F.E. Wilson .