Gliciphila melanops chandleri 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 : 146-147

Gliciphila melanops chandleri Mathews

Gliciphila melanops chandleri Mathews, 1912a: 399 (Victoria) .

Now Gliciphila melanops melanops (Latham, 1801) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 430, Schodde and

Mason, 1999: 316–317, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691892 , adult male, collected at Frankston, 38.08S, 145.07E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, by L.G. Chandler. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9464) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ The holotype bears Chandler’s original tag, with sex and locality indicated and ‘‘data lost’’ noted; the number ‘‘756’’ on this tag refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Also present are Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 519, lower fig., opp. p. 346, text p. 351), where it is confirmed as the type of chandleri. The following AMNH specimens are paratypes: Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula, AMNH 691873 (Mathews no. 9676), male, 3 September 1911; Marble Range, Eyre Peninsula, AMNH 691874 (9673), AMNH 691875 (9675), 31 August 1911, males, AMNH 691876 (9672), AMNH 691877 (9674), 28 August 1911, females; Coonalpyn, 90 Mile Desert, AMNH 691890 (5948), 17 May 1911, female; Grange, AMNH 691891 (3085), 4 March 1897, sex?; Frankston, AMNH 691896 (3073), 12 December 1908, female; Stawell, AMNH 691907 (3071), 15 September 1908, AMNH 691908 (3070), 28 September 1908, AMNH 691909 (probably shares no. 3071), 15 September 1908, females. The following specimens are probably paratypes; they were all collected by Chandler, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into his possession: Frankston, AMNH 691893, male immature, AMNH 691894, male, 29 September 1908, AMNH 691895, female, 23 April 1908, AMNH 691897, female, 12 December 1908. The following specimens were collected early enough and are possible paratypes but I also did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Lang Lang, AMNH 691901, male, 9 April 1908, AMNH 691902, female, 9 April 1908; Point Addis, AMNH 691903, female, 15 October 1911; Sandringham, AMNH 691904, male, 1890. There is also a paratype in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.).

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 317) for a note on the spelling of Gliciphila . For the use of 1801 as the date of publication of Latham’s Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, see Schodde et al. (2010).