Pardalotus melanocephalus subsp. melvillensis Mathews

• Main Authors: Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And, Lecroy, Mary
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• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Pardalotidae; Pardalotus; Pardalotus melanocephalus; Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis mathews; Austral; Elliott; Rothschild; Lynx; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5464565; https://zenodo.org/record/5464565

Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews Pardalotus melanocephalus melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 48 (Melville Island, Northern Territory). Now Pardalotus striatus melvillensis Mathews, 1912. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 128–131, and Woinarski, 2008: 401. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699030 , adult male, collected at Cooper’s Camp, Apsley Strait, 11.35S, 130.28E (USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 22 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2251). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10648) 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 holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Mathews (1912b: 26) noted that Rogers had forwarded to him two collections from Melville Island; these included specimens collected in 1911. The following specimens, all from Cooper’s Camp, Apsley Strait, are paratypes: AMNH 699029 (Mathews no. 10652, Rogers no. 2489), male, 23 November 1911; AMNH 699031 (11560, 2606), male, 9 December 1911; AMNH 699032 (11561, 2617), male, 11 December 1911; AMNH 699033 (11559, 2551), male, 29 November 1911; AMNH 699035 (10650, 2249), female, 22 October 1911; AMNH 699036 (10651, 2250), female, 22 October 1911; AMNH 699039 (10649, 2235), unsexed, 20 October 1911. : 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 pages 129-130 : {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Woinarski, J. C. Z. 2008. Family Pardalotidae (pardalotes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 390 - 401. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs."]}