Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis 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 : 141-142

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scientific name	Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis Mathews
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Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis Mathews, 1912a: 415 (Victoria) .

Now Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 427, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692179 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Olinda , 37.51S, 145.22E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 17 April 1911, by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9062) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Victoria.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Tregellas’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a label marked ‘‘Figured’’ in Mathews’ hand, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1925a: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 16), where it is confirmed as the type of assimilis.

The following specimens are paratypes of assimilis: Frankston, AMNH 692165 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3322), male, 25 September 1908 ; Olinda, AMNH 692166 About AMNH (9064), male, 17 April 1911 ; AMNH 692168 About AMNH (10104), female, 8 July 1911 ; AMNH 692169 About AMNH (10108), male, 14 October 1911 ; AMNH 692172 About AMNH (10107), male, 10 September 1911 ; AMNH 692175 About AMNH (9065), male, 13 May 1911 ; AMNH 692178 About AMNH (10106), male (cataloged as a female), 8 July 1911 ; AMNH 692180 About AMNH (4971), female, 7 June 1909 ; AMNH 692181 About AMNH (9063), female, 13 May 1911 ; AMNH 692183 About AMNH (10105), female, 8 July 1911 ; AMNH 692185 About AMNH (5055), sex?, 3 June 1907 ; AMNH 692186 About AMNH (5056), sex?, 6 June 1908 ; Aspendale Park, AMNH 692190 About AMNH (3319), female, 15 July 1906. The following specimens were collected before assimilis was published on 31 January 1912, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog ; they are possible paratypes: Olinda, AMNH 692176 About AMNH , male, 30 January 1909 ; AMNH 692177 About AMNH , male, 14 July 1901 ; AMNH 692182 About AMNH , female, 15 August 1908 ; Bayswater, AMNH 692187 About AMNH , male, 4 May 1907 .

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.

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.