Mirafra javanica subsp. subrufescens Mathews ...

• Main Author: LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Alaudidae; Mirafra; Mirafra javanica; Mirafra javanica subrufescens mathews; Lewis Island; Rothschild
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12775640; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12775640

Mirafra javanica subrufescens Mathews Mirafra javanica subrufescens Mathews, 1912a: 426 (North­West Australia (Tabba Tabba)). Now Mirafra javanica woodwardi Milligan, 1901. See Mees, 1962: 49, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 714. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 556350, female, collected at Tabba Tabba, Western Australia, Australia, on 11 September 1901, by John Thomas Tunney (no. 374). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5191) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number in the original description. His catalog indicates that he obtained this specimen from WAM; Tunney was employed by WAM as a collector. In 1901, he arrived at Port Hedland on 8 June and on 22 June visited Lewis Island. He then collected for a period on the de Grey and Strelley rivers and sailed for Derby, which he reached on 11 September (Whittell, 1954:724), the same day on which the holotype was collected. Mees (1962: 49) called attention to the problem connected with the type locality, which he considered to be ‘‘ 15 miles south of ... : Published as part of LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, pp. 1-156 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278) on page 5, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)278<0001:tsobit>2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/13256611 ...