Stigmatops indistincta subsp. melvillensis Mathews

• Main Author: , Mary
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• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Passeriformes; Meliphagidae; Stigmatops; Stigmatops indistincta; Stigmatops indistincta melvillensis mathews; Austral; Elliott; Bathurst Island; Rothschild; Lynx; Melville Island
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Stigmatops indistincta melvillensis Mathews Stigmatops indistincta melvillensis Mathews, 1912b: 50 (Melville Island, Northern Territory). Now Lichmera indistincta melvillensis (Mathews, 1912). See Salomonsen, 1967: 347, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694082 , adult female, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 25 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2271). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10679) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said (Mathews, 1912b: 26) that he had received two shipments of Melville Island birds from Rogers since the publication of his reference list (published 31 January 1912). Paratypes are birds collected at Coopers Camp by Rogers in October, November, and December 1911: AMNH 694074 (Mathews no. 10677), male; AMNH 694075 (10676), male; AMNH 694076 (10683), male; AMNH 694078 (11608), male; AMNH 694079 (11607), male; AMNH 694080 (10678), male; AMNH 694083 (11609), female; AMNH 694084 (11610), female; AMNH 694085 (10680), female; AMNH 694087 (10682), unsexed. An unsexed specimen collected at Coopers Camp on 25 October 1911 was cataloged as no. 10681 by Mathews but did not come to AMNH. If found, it is also a paratype. Coopers Camp was named for Joe Cooper, an Australian buffalo hunter, who lived on Melville Island from about 1900 to 1916. His home was on the eastern end of Apsley Strait, across from the Mission Station (Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101). The Bathurst Island Mission Station is at 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas). : Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on pages 53-54 : {"references": ["Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.", "Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.", "Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.", "Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.", "Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.", "Hart, C. W. M., and A. R. Pilling. 1964. The Tiwi of north Australia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 118 pp."]}