Neositta pileata subsp. melvillensis Mathews

• Main Authors: Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And, Lecroy, Mary
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Neosittidae; Neositta; Neositta pileata; Neositta pileata melvillensis mathews; Austral; Elliott; Rothschild; Lynx; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5464442; https://zenodo.org/record/5464442

Neositta pileata melvillensis Mathews Neositta pileata melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 47 (Melville Island, Northern Territory). Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera (Gould, 1840). See Mayr, 1950: 288, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684346 , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E (USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 11 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2167). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10703) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of melvillensis as Melville Island. Mathews (1912b: 26) noted that Rogers was still on Melville Island in early 1912 but had already forwarded two large collections from there. These collections would have included the specimens Rogers collected at Coopers Camp in 1911. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 684345 (Mathews no. 11612), male, 27 November; AMNH 684347 (10701), male, 1 October; AMNH 684348 (10702), female, 11 October; AMNH 684349 (11611), female, 27 November. : Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & 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) on page 89 : {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.", "Mayr, E. 1950. Taxonomic notes on the genus Neositta. Emu 49: 282 - 291.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Noske, R. A. 2007 a. Family Neosittidae (sittellas). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 628 - 641. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls., 436 photographs."]}