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Neositta pileata subsp. rogersi Mathews

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews

Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews, 1912a: 380 (North-West Australia (Mungi).

Now Daphoenositta chrysoptera leucoptera (Gould, 1840). See Mayr, 1950: 288, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 428–430, and Noske, 2007a: 640–641.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684321, adult female, collected at Mungi Rockhole, 18.45S, 123.44E (Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 miles southeast of Mt. Alexander, West Kimberley, northern Western Australia, Australia, on 4 July 1911, by John P. Rogers (no. 1859). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9114) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of rogersi as ‘‘Interior North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears Rogers’ original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes are Mathews’ specimens (all males) collected by Rogers inland in the West Kimberley: Mungi Rockhole, AMNH 684319 (Mathews no. 9111), 30 June 1911; AMNH 684320 (9113), 22 June 1911; Manguel (spelled Marngle on label) Creek, AMNH 684322 (9112), male, 28 May 1911.

Notes

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1911-05-28 , 1911-06-22 , 1911-06-30 , 1911-07-04
Family
Neosittidae
Genus
Neositta
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 684319 , AMNH 684320 , AMNH 684321 , AMNH 684322
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Species
rogersi
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1911-05-28 , 1911-06-22 , 1911-06-30 , 1911-07-04

References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.
  • 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.
  • Johnstone, R. E., and G. M. Storr. 2004. Handbook of Western Australian birds, Volume 2. Passerines. Perth: Western Australian Museum, 529 pp.