Munia bichenovii bandi Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 106

Munia bichenovii bandi Mathews

Munia bichenovii bandi Mathews, 1912a: 429 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now from a zone of intergradation between Taeniopygia b. bichenovii and T. b. annulosa . See Mayr et al., 1968: 359; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 763–764; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 357–358.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 720329 , adult male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.02S, 136.42E ( USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, in June 1905, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3495) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that his type was from ‘‘ Northern Territory (Alexandra)’’ and gave the range as ‘‘ Northern Territory.’’ The Alexandria collection was made by Stalker for William Ingram and reported on by Collingwood Ingram (1907, 1909). It was later purchased by Mathews. C. Ingram (1907: 415) recorded an adult specimen, without sex and date of collection, as Stictoptera bichenovii and an adult male and female (no. 54, that shared a label), collected in June 1905, as Stictoptera annulosa . On his label, however, Mathews had identified the female specimen collected in June 1905 as S. annulosa , and the unsexed, undated bird and the male collected in June 1905 as M. bichenovii , labeling the last as his type of M. bichenovii bandi . It is clear from the ranges given in his listing of the subspecies of M. bichenovii ( Mathews, 1912a: 429) that he assigned all his Northern Territory specimens to his new subspecies bandi, which he regarded as intermediate between M. b. annulosa and M. b. bichenovii , and that he considered M. b. annulosa to be confined to ‘‘North-West Australia.’’ He had marked the Stalker label of the unsexed, undated bird (AMNH 720332) as ‘‘Type,’’ but apparently changed his mind, as AMNH 720329 bears his green type label as well as a Rothschild type label. It is this specimen that was evidently Mathews’ intended type, was so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH, and has since then been considered the type without question. I hereby designate AMNH 720329 the lectotype of Munia bichenovii bandi in order to settle the issue. Paralectotypes are: Alexandria, AMNH 720331 (Mathews no. 3494), female, June 1905; AMNH 720332 (3503), sex?, undated, both collected by Stalker.

AMNH 720333, collected at Glencoe, Northern Territory, by Knut Dahl in January 1895 was not cataloged by Mathews (no. 11046) until 8 February 1912, after the 31 January 1912 publication date of bandi and is not considered a paratype.