Gliciphila melanops braba Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 147

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476049
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scientific name	Gliciphila melanops braba Mathews
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Gliciphila melanops braba Mathews, 1912b: 49 (Kangaroo Island, South Australia).

Now Gliciphila melanops melanops (Latham, 1801) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 430, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 316–317, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691882 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Middle River , 35.41S, 137.03E ( USBGN, 1957), Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, on 8 December 1911, by S.A. White (no. 396). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10204) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range as ‘‘ Kangaroo Island.’’ Paratypes are: Tin Hut, central island, 12 April 1912, AMNH 691878 About AMNH (Mathews no. 12322), AMNH 691879 About AMNH (12323), males, AMNH 691880 About AMNH (12321), AMNH 691881 About AMNH (13093), females ; Waterfall Creek , 1911, AMNH 691883 About AMNH (10365), 4 December, male, AMNH 691884 About AMNH (10203), 8 December, male juvenile, AMNH 691885 About AMNH (10205), 4 December, female. An additional paratype is in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .

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. 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.