Myzomela erythrocephala derbyi Mathews

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Myzomela erythrocephala derbyi Mathews

Myzomela erythrocephala derbyi Mathews, 1912a: 396 (North-West Australia (Derby)).

Now Myzomela erythrocephala erythrocephala Gould, 1840 . 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 692732 , adult male, collected at Point Torment , 17.15S, 123.44E ( USBGN, 1957), King Sound, West Kimberley, northern Western Australia, Australia, on 17 January 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no.1164). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8268) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North- West Australia.’’ In addition to Rogers’ label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following specimens were cataloged by Mathews prior to the publication of the name and are paratypes: Point Torment, males, AMNH 692730 (Mathews’ no. 8724), AMNH 692731 (8482), AMNH 692733 (8481), AMNH 692734 (8725), AMNH 692735 (8267), AMNH 692736 (8270) ; females, AMNH 692737 (8483), AMNH 692738 (8484), AMNH 692739 (8485), all collected by Rogers ; Napier Broome Bay , males, AMNH 692740 (5772), AMNH 692741 (5771), AMNH 692742 (6237), AMNH 692743 (6238), AMNH 692744 (5774) ; female, AMNH 692745 (5773), all collected by G.F. Hill. All of Rogers’ specimens are labeled Point Torment, King Sound, although Mathews gave ‘‘Derby’’ as the type locality. While the two localities are closely adjacent, ‘‘Derby’’ does not appear on any of Rogers’ labels. Mathews (1924: 312), in his later description of the adult male of M. erythrocephala , said that the described (but not figured) specimen was ‘‘Collected at Point Torment, North-west Australia, on the 17th of January, 1911, and is M. e. derbyi.’’ While he did not say that it was the type, that was his only specimen collected on that date, and it shows that he equated Point Torment with Derby .