Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews

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scientific name	Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews
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Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews, 1912a: 399 (South-West 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 691935 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Wilson Inlet , 35.00S, 117.22E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 13 April 1910, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4829) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of westernensis as ‘‘ West Australia.’’ The holotype bears in addition to Carter’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are 16 paratypes in AMNH: Wilson Inlet, AMNH 691936 About AMNH (Mathews no. 4200), female, 5 December 1909, AMNH 691937 About AMNH (4828), female, 18 April 1910, AMNH 691938 About AMNH (4830), immature female, 18 April 1910 ; Albany , AMNH 691939 About AMNH (3079), male, 28 December 1904, AMNH 691940 About AMNH (3076), male juvenile, 17 February 1905, AMNH 691942 About AMNH (3074), juvenile, 16 February 1905 ; King George Sound , AMNH 691943 About AMNH (3084), no data ; Stirling Range , AMNH 691945 About AMNH (6184), sex?, 7 September 1910 ; Broome Hill , AMNH 691949 About AMNH (3067), female, 25 November 1906, AMNH 691950 About AMNH (3068), female, 27 July 1908, AMNH 691951 About AMNH (3066), female, 14 January 1907 ; Perth , AMNH 691954 About AMNH (3069), female, 29 June 1907 ; Wongan Hills , AMNH 691955 About AMNH (5318), female, 4 October 1903, AMNH 691956 About AMNH (5317), female juvenile, 3 October 1903, AMNH 691957 About AMNH (5316), juvenile, October 1903 ; Subiaco Beach , AMNH 691958 About AMNH (3075), male juvenile, 26 December 1908. There are three possible additional paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Albany, AMNH 691941 About AMNH , female, 19 January 1910 ; Broome Hill , AMNH 691946 About AMNH , male, 11 February 1911, AMNH 691948 About AMNH , female, 17

October 1910. Other specimens in AMNH were collected after the description was published on 31 January 1912 or were never in Mathews’ collection.

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 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.

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.