Philemon orientalis johnstoni 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 : 121-122

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475981
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scientific name	Philemon orientalis johnstoni Mathews
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Philemon orientalis johnstoni Mathews, 1912a: 423 (Johnston [sic] River, North Queensland).

Now Philemon citreogularis citreogularis (Gould, 1837) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 405, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 287–288, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 684– 685.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696808 About AMNH , female, collected on the Johnstone River , 17.31S, 146.04E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 9 July 1900, by E. Olive (no. 141). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4244) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range as ‘‘ North Queensland.’’ Olive collected the single specimen of this species and clearly marked his label ‘‘ Johnstone River .’’ It was cataloged by Mathews on 1 March 1910. Robinson and Laverock (1900: 617, 634) reported on this specimen, giving the locality as Mount Sapphiri (5 Mount Sophia ), 17.10S, 145.52E ( USBGN, 1957), and commenting on the spatulate tips of the breast feathers, as in the adult, and yellow chin and breast feathers, a sign of immaturity. The yellow on the chin and breast is no longer present, but the soft parts colors cited by Robinson and Laverock are exactly those written by Olive on the label. The following specimens are paratypes: Inkerman, AMNH 696806 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3426), female, September 1907 GoogleMaps ; AMNH 696807 About AMNH (3427), female, 3 October 1907, both collected by Wilfred Stalker.

Salomonsen (1967: 405) recognized johnstoni, but Schodde and Mason (1999: 287– 288) and Higgins et al. (2008: 684) did not.

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.

Robinson, H. C., and W. S. Laverock. 1900. The birds of north Queensland. - Part 1. On two collections from Cooktown and the neighbourhood of Cairns. Ibis (7) 6: 617 - 653.

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.