Neochmia phaeton iredalei 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 : 101-102

Neochmia phaeton iredalei Mathews

Neochmia phaeton iredalei Mathews, 1912a: 434 (Queensland (Rockhampton)).

Now Neochmia phaeton phaeton (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1841) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 357; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 750–751; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 353.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721882 , adult male, collected at Rockhampton , 23.23S, 150.30E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in July 1895, obtained from T. Thorpe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 7304) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as north Queensland. The holotype bears an original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following specimens are paratypes of iredalei: Mackay , AMNH 721884 (Mathews catalog no. 6506), [female plumage] ; Bowen , AMNH 721885 (7303), male, AMNH 721886 (7306), male, August 1898, obtained from Thorpe. AMNH 721883 (14602), male, Mackay, June 1882, was not cataloged by Mathews until December 1912, after the publication of iredalei. Other specimens from the Mathews collection have imprecise localities or no date and are not considered paratypes .