Melithreptus atricapillus subsp. pallidiceps Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Melithreptus

description: <i>Melithreptus atricapillus pallidiceps</i> Mathews <i>Melithreptus atricapillus pallidiceps</i> Mathews, 1912a: 394 (South Australia (90-Mile Desert)). Now <i>Melithreptus brevirostris pallidiceps</i> Mathews, 1912. See Salomonsen 1967: 395, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 279–281, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 673– 674. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 691651</b>, female, collected at Coonalpyn, 35.41S, 139.52E (Times Atlas), 90 Mile Desert, South Australia, Australia, on 17 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland (no. 4). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8949, not 8904, as in description) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his specimen no. 8904 as the type of <i>pallidiceps</i>; however, that number refers to a Norfolk Island specimen of <i>Pachycephala pectoralis</i>. The correct number ‘‘8949’’ is written on both the Mathews and the Rothschild type label. The original label is attached and Cleland (1912: 15) reported on the single specimen of <i>M. brevirostris</i> that he collected at Coonalpyn. Mathews (1924: 274) described, but did not figure, the type of <i>pallidiceps</i>, incorrectly listing the name as <i>palliceps</i>. The name is also incorrectly written on both type labels; the spelling in the original description is <i>pallidiceps.</i> The range of the form was given as ‘‘South Australia, Interior,’’ and the Coonalpyn specimen appears to be the only interior South Australian specimen Mathews had when <i>pallidiceps</i> was named. Salomonsen (1967: 395) used <i>augustus</i> as the valid name of this form and considered <i>pallidiceps</i> a synonym, but see Schodde and Mason (1999: 280–281) for use of <i>pallidiceps</i> as the valid name.
description: Published as part of <i>Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348)</i> on page 111
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