Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 129

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476007
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scientific name	Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert
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Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert, 1907: 482 View in CoL (head of Aroa River, 4600 ft.).

Now Ptiloprora meekiana meekiana ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1907) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 413, Coates, 1990: 267, and Higgins et al., 2008: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696596 About AMNH , adult male, collected at the head of the Aroa River , 4600 ft, 09.00S, 147.00E (PNG, 1984), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 20 May 1905, by Albert S. Meek (no. A.2199). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited the unique field number of the holotype in the original description and listed their type series, including Meek field numbers. Paratypes are: head of Aroa River, AMNH 696594 About AMNH (Meek no. A.2255), 28 May 1905, AMNH 696595 About AMNH (A.2214), 23 May 1905, males ; Bihagi , head of Mambare River, AMNH 696597 About AMNH (A.2595), male, AMNH 696598 About AMNH (A.2591), female, AMNH 696599 About AMNH (A.2593), sex?, but published as male, all three collected on 11 March 1906 .

References

Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 576 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.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1907. List of collections of birds made by A. S. Meek in the mountains of the upper Aroa River and on the Angabunga River, British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 14: 447 - 483.

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.