Melithreptus gularis coongani Mathews

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Melithreptus gularis coongani Mathews

Melithreptus gularis coongani Mathews, 1912a: 392 (North-West Australia (Coongan River)).

Now Melithreptus gularis laetior Gould, 1875 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276–277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691549 , adult male, collected on the Coongan River , 20.53S, 119.47E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 July 1908, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2989) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of the form as ‘‘North-West Australia.’’ In addition to Whitlock’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 512, upper fig. (identified as M. laetior ), opp. p. 256, text p. 263), where it is confirmed as the type of M. gularis coongani . The following AMNH specimens are paratypes of coongani: Coongan River, AMNH 691548 (Mathews no. 2988), 691550 (2990), 691551 (2991); Derby, AMNH 691553– 691555 (8874–8876); Point Torment, AMNH 691564 (8621); Mungi Rockhole, AMNH 691565 (9239), 691566 (9236), 691567 (9240); Manguel (5 Marngle, as on label) Creek, AMNH 691568 (9237), 691569 (9238); Parry Creek, AMNH 691570–691573 (2984–2987). Other specimens in AMNH from northwestern Australia are either not from the Mathews Collection or were cataloged by Mathews after the publication of the name on 31 January 1912.