Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews

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scientific name	Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews
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Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews, 1916a: 63 (Western District of Tasmania).

Now Anthochaera paradoxa paradoxa (Daudin, 1800) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 448, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 303, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 624.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696436 About AMNH , sex?, Westbury (not Western) District, 41.03S, 146.47E (Times Atlas), Tasmania, Australia, obtained from R.H.W. Leach. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4359) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Only two of Mathews’ Tasmanian specimens of paradoxa bore exact localities from within that state, and he named each of them. In the case of westernensis , he misread the locality as ‘‘Western’’ rather than ‘‘Westbury.’’ Mathews wrote on the reverse of Leach’s label ‘‘ D. westernensis Mathews , Type.’’ The specimen had not previously been in the AMNH type collection. Mathews (1925a: 76) spoke of westernensis as valid at the top of the page, then named brevirostris as new on the same page and in the next sentence considered westernensis (named in 1916) a synonym of brevirostris (named in 1925)!

References

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.

Mathews, G. M. 1916 a. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my '' List of the birds of Australia. '' Austral Avian Record 3: 53 - 68.

Mathews, G. M. 1925 a. The birds of Australia. Vol. 12, pts. 1 - 5. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1 - 225, pls. 542 - 570.

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.