Munia castaneothorax subsp. apsleyi Mathews
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Description
Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews
Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews, 1912b: 52 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).
Now Lonchura castaneothorax castaneothorax (Gould, 1837). See Mayr et al., 1968: 385; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 771–772; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 374.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721436, adult male, collected at Coopers Camp, Apsley Straits,
Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 4 December 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2571). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11319) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENT: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and mentioned (p. 26) that Rogers had forwarded two shipments from Melville Island, which would have included specimens collected in 1911. The range of apsleyi was given as Melville Island; the six specimens Mathews cataloged in March 1912 are considered his type series. The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was used as the model in Mathews (1925: pl. 565, lower fig., opp. p. 196, and p. 197) under Donacola castaneothorax, where the figured male is confirmed as the type of apsleyi. There are only four paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 721437 (Mathews no. 11322), AMNH 721438 (11321), AMNH 721439 (11323), males, AMNH 721440 (11320), female, all collected on 4 December 1911. Another specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 11324, male, 15 December 1911, if found, is also a paratype.
Hart and Pilling (1964: 101) gave the location of Coopers Camp as across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island Mission Station, 11.45S 130.41E (Times atlas).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1911-12-04
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Genus
- Munia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 721436 , AMNH 721437, AMNH 721438, AMNH 721439, AMNH 721440
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mathews
- Species
- apsleyi
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1911-12-04
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. [Australo-Papuan]., R. A. Paynter, Jr. [Oriental], and M. A. Traylor [African]. 1968. Family Estrildidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 14: 306 - 390. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 433 pp.
- Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
- Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Payne, R. B. 2010. Family Estrildidae (waxbills), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 299 - 377. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., photographs.
- Mathews, G. M. 1925. The birds of Australia, Vol. 12: 1 - 225, pls. 542 - 570. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 454 pp.
- Hart, C. W. M., and A. R. Pilling. 1964. The Tiwi of north Australia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 118 pp.