Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews

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 : 112

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475951
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scientific name	Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews
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Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews, 1912a: 391 (Adelaide, South Australia).

Now Melithreptus lunatus lunatus (Vieillot, 1802) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 395, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 284–285, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 675.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691488 About AMNH , unsexed, collected at Adelaide , 34.56S, 138.36E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 20 June 1897, collector unknown. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2938) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews included his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of the form as South Australia. The original label is missing from the holotype. Mathews’ collection label bears his catalog number, the number ‘‘733’’ on this label referring to the number of the species in Mathews (1908); Mathews and Rothschild type labels are also attached. Paratypes are: AMNH 691486 About AMNH ( Mathews no. 9699), adult male, AMNH 691487 About AMNH (9700), female, Mount Lofty Range , 12 August 1911, S.A. White ; AMNH 691489 About AMNH , 691490 About AMNH (2939), unsexed, Adelaide , July 1902 ; AMNH 691497 About AMNH (2940), 691498, unsexed, Scotts Creek , 29 January 1898. An additional paratype is in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .