Chlamydera nuchalis subsp. melvillensis Mathews

• Main Author: Lecroy, Mary
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Ptilonorhynchidae; Chlamydera; Chlamydera nuchalis; Chlamydera nuchalis melvillensis mathews; Austral; Elliott; Bathurst Island; Jennings; Bower; Rothschild; Selby; Port Essington; Lynx; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4628116; https://zenodo.org/record/4628116

Chlamydera nuchalis melvillensis Mathews Chlamydera nuchalis melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 52 (Melville Island, Northern Territory). Now Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jardine and Selby, 1830). See Mathews, 1926: 340–350; Hartert, 1929a: 56; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 11–13; Mayr, 1962c: 180; Gilliard, 1969: 371– 373; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 636–637; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 424–426; 2009a: 403. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679269 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Straits, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 11 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2172). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10776) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of melvillensis as Melville Island. The following specimens, all collected on Melville Island in October and November 1911 by Rogers, are paratypes of melvillensis : AMNH 679266–679268 , males, AMNH 679271–679273 , females, cataloged under the following Mathews numbers 10777, 11419–11422, and 11475. I did not find AMNH 679268 in the collection. Specimens collected by Rogers on Melville Island in 1912 arrived too late to be included in melvillensis , which was published on 2 April 1912. Mayr and Jennings (1952: 11) noted that Gould had restricted the type locality of nuchalis to Western Australia, and they further restricted it to the Port Darwin district of Northern Territory and included melvillensis in the synonymy of nuchalis . However, see comments by Schodde and Mason (1999: 637) who gave reasons for believing that the type locality is likely to be Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory. Coopers Camp was said to be directly across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island mission station (Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101) at 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas). : Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 90, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954 : {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.", "Mathews, G. M. 1926. The birds of Australia, 12 (6 - 9): 226 - 406, pls. 571 - 595. London: H. F. & G. Witherby.", "Hartert, E. 1929 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. D. Gregory M. Mathews' types of Australian birds. I. Novitates Zoologicae 35: 42 - 58.", "Mayr, E., and K. Jennings. 1952. Geographic variation and plumages in Australian bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae). American Museum Novitates 1602: 1 - 18.", "Mayr, E. 1962 c. Family Ptilonorhynchidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 172 - 181. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.", "Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2004. The bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiii + 508 pp, 8 pls., maps, photographs.", "Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 a. Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds). Species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 393 - 403. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.", "Hart, C. W. M., and A. R. Pilling. 1964. The Tiwi of north Australia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 118 pp."]}