Poephila gouldiae kempi 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 : 113

Poephila gouldiae kempi Mathews

Poephila gouldiae kempi Mathews, 1915: 132 (Normanton, Queensland).

Now Erythrura gouldiae (Gould, 1844) . See Mayr, et al., 1968: 367; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 767; Dickinson, 2003: 734; and Payne, 2010: 345.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 721704 , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 12 April 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 4337). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18503) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews, in the original description, said only that kempi differed from nominate gouldiae ‘‘in having a richer coloured under-surface’’ and that the type was from Normanton, Queensland. Mathews had four specimens from Normanton, two of which were immature specimens. The other two are both adult males, one with a red face (AMNH 721705) and one with a black face (AMNH 721704). Neither adult specimen is figured in Mathews (1926, pl. 573, opp. p. 238). AMNH 721704 bears a Kemp field label and both a Mathews and a Rothschild type label, with Mathews’ catalog number written on both. It is apparently the only one of the four specimens that he cataloged, although he did not mention the number in the description. Many of the specimens that Mathews entered at the end of his catalog were type specimens, but that was not indicated in the catalog. Because the presence of Mathews’ type label indicates that AMNH 721704 is his chosen type and because it was cataloged as such when it came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and has subsequently been regarded as the type, I hereby designate it the lectotype of Poephila gouldiae kempi to remove any ambiguity. The other three specimens, all collected by Robin Kemp, are considered paralectotypes: Normanton, AMNH 721705 (Kemp no. 4516), adult male, 10 May 1914; AMNH 721706 (3291), immature male, 9 October 1913; AMNH 721707 (3301), immature female, 11 October 1913. This last specimen was the one described as ‘‘Immature,’’ but not illustrated, in Mathews (1926: 240). The Kemp label is marked ‘‘ C. gouldiae ’’ and the Rothschild label is marked ‘‘descri’’ by Mathews.