Zonaeginthus bellus samueli 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 : 99

Zonaeginthus bellus samueli Mathews

Zonaeginthus bellus samueli Mathews, 1912a: 102 (Kangaroo Island).

Now Stagonopleura bella samueli Mathews, 1912 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 354–355; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 744–745; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 353.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720062 , adult male, collected in the center of Kangaroo Island , South Australia, Australia, on 13 April 1912, by S.A. White (no. 706). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12354) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, and gave the range as Kangaroo Island . The following specimens from Kangaroo Island are paratypes: Tin Hut, AMNH 720063–720065 (Mathews nos. 12355–12357), two females, one sex?, 13 April 1912, S.A. White (nos. 707, 708, 729) ; Mount Taylor , AMNH 720066 (12358), female, 15 April 1912, S.A. White (no. 705) ; near Hog Bay , AMNH 720067 (3468), female, 30 December 1897, no original label .

Schodde and Mason (1999: 744–745) gave reasons for recognizing samueli and they were followed by Dickinson (2003: 732); Payne (2010: 353) considered S. bella monotypic.