Climacteris melanura subsp. alexandrae Mathews
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Climacteridae
Climacteris

description: <i>Climacteris melanura alexandrae</i> Mathews <i>Climacteris melanura alexandrae</i> Mathews 1912a: 381 (Alexandra [sic], Northern Territory). Now <i>Climacteris melanurus melanurus</i> Gould, 1843. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 79–80, and Noske, 2007b: 660. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 685077</b>, female [male], Alexandria (<i>5</i> Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, May [1905], by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2795) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of <i>alexandrae</i> as Northern Territory. This collection of birds from the vicinity of Alexandria was made by Stalker in 1905 and 1906 for Sir William Ingram and was reported on by Collingwood Ingram (1907, 1909); it later became part of the Mathews Collection. The holotype bears, in addition to Stalker’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1923b: pl. 503, lower figure, opp. p. 128, text p. 129), where it is confirmed as the type of <i>C. m. alexandrae</i>. The type locality, ‘‘Alexandra,’’ is not written on Stalker’s label, but C. Ingram (1907: 387) reported it as Stalker’s main collecting locality. C. Ingram (1907: 412, and 1909: 618) had three specimens of <i>C. melanura</i> collected by Stalker and all three were in Mathews’ hand when <i>alexandrae</i> was named. The two paratypes are: <b>AMNH 685076</b>, adult male, collected at ‘‘Alexandra’’ in May 1905; and <b>AMNH 685078</b>, female, collected at Cliff Creek, Alexandria, 28 March 1906.
description: Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And &amp; Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333)</i> on page 100
description: {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Noske, R. A. 2007 b. Family Climacteridae (Australian treecreepers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 642 - 660. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls., 436 photographs.", "Ingram, C. 1907. On the birds of the Alexandra District, North Territory of South Australia. Ibis (9) 1: 387 - 415.", "Ingram, C. 1909. Supplementary list of the birds of the Alexandra District, Northern Territory, South Australia. Ibis (9) 3: 613 - 618.", "Mathews, G. M. 1923 b. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11 (1 - 3): 1 - 209, pls. 491 - 508. London: H. F. and G. Witherby."]}