Philemon buceroides gordoni Mathews, 1912Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild

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Philemon buceroides gordoni Mathews

Philemon buceroides gordoni Mathews, 1912d: 101 (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Philemon buceroides gordoni Mathews, 1912 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 408, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680– 681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697086 About AMNH , adult male, collected 10 miles east of Gordon Point , 11.31S, 130.27E ( USBGN, 1957), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 14 June 1912, by J.P. Rogers (no. 3689). From the Mathews Collection (no. 13602) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of gordoni as ‘‘Melville Island.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers’ original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1925a: pl. 555, upper fig., opp. p. 103, text p. 107), where it is confirmed as the type of gordoni. Paratypes, all collected at Gordon Point in 1912, are: AMNH 697085 (Mathews no. 14409), 19 June, AMNH 697086 (13603), 14 June, males, AMNH 697088 (13604), 19 June, female.

Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 513 (Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Philemon buceroides novaeguineae (Müller, 1843) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 408–410, Diamond, 1972: 380–384, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, Dickinson, 2003: 436, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697127, adult male, collected in the Maoke (5 Snow) Mountains, 04.00S, 138.00E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province (5 Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 4 September 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4713). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had three specimens (one male and two females) from the Snow Mountains and three specimens (two males and one female) from the upper Setekwa River, giving the Meek numbers for them. The following specimens, all collected in 1910, are paratypes: Setekwa River, males, AMNH 697124 (Meek’s no. 4410), 23 July, AMNH 697125 (4432), 26 July; female, AMNH 697126 (4431), 26 July; Snow Mountains, 2000 ft, females, AMNH 697128 (4714), 4 September, AMNH 697129 (4687), 1 September.

Diamond (1972: 380–384) recognized the species P. novaeguineae and reviewed the subspecies from the Vogelkop and southern New Guinea, synonymizing all of them with nominate novaeguineae . Subsequently, P. novaeguineae has been recognized as a full species or included in the large species P. buceroides (see Schodde and Mason, 1999: 290, for a discussion). Dickinson (2003: 436) recognized P. buceroides brevipennis but Coates (1990: 254) and Higgins et al. (2008: 680) did not.

Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473) noted that most of Meek’s 1910 collection was made on the Setekwa River, 04.54S, 137.19E ( USBGN, 1982a), a tributary of the Utakwa (5 Oetakwa) River.

References

Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.

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

Diamond, J. M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 12. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 438 pp.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 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 d. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 81 - 104.

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.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1913. List of the collections of birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains, on the Eilanden River, and on Mount Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 473 - 527.

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.