Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert

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 : 59

Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert

Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert, 1905a: 235 (Brock’s Creek).

Now Myzomela obscura obscura Gould, 1843 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 352, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692480 , adult male, collected at Brocks Creek , 13.28S, 131.25E ( USBGN, 1957), Northern Territory, Australia, on 9 August 1902, by J.T. Tunney (no. R.635). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Tunney’s field number of the holotype in the original description and listed six additional specimens, which are paratypes. Of those, four are in AMNH: Brocks Creek , AMNH 692478 (Tunney no. R.633), male, 7 August 1902 ; AMNH 692479 (R. 637), male, 5 August 1902 ; AMNH 692481 (R.636), female [changed to male on label], 7 August 1902 ; east of Mary River , AMNH 692482 (736), male, 16 September 1902. Tunney’s collection was studied by Hartert and most of the specimens were divided between WAM and Rothschild, with a selection going to BMNH ( Hartert, 1905a: 194). Of the four paratypes in AMNH, two had been in the Mathews Collection. Mathews obtained AMNH 692479 from WAM (it bears their number 7711) and cataloged it as his no. 5322. AMNH 692482 had also been in the Mathews collection, but it is not clear from whom he obtained it. The two paratypes still unaccounted for bear Tunney numbers 634 from Brocks Creek and no. 735 from the South Alligator River .