Megalurus alisteri melvillensis Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 16

Megalurus alisteri melvillensis Mathews

Megalurus alisteri melvillensis Mathews, 1912e: 92 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Megalurus timoriensis alisteri Mathews, 1912 . See Watson et al., 1986a: 41, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597868 , adult male, collected 10 mi east of Gordon Point , 11.31S, 130.27E ( USBGN, 1957b), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 6 June 1912, by J.P. Rogers (no. 3619). From the Mathews Collection (no. 13641) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; only the single specimen was cataloged. The holotype bears in addition to the Mathews and Rothschild type labels the yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1922a: pl. 445, opp. p. 384, text p. 385), where the illustrated specimen is confirmed as the type of melvillensis.