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

Philemon orientalis johnstoni Mathews

Philemon orientalis johnstoni Mathews, 1912a: 423 (Johnston [sic] River, North Queensland).

Now Philemon citreogularis citreogularis (Gould, 1837) . 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 , 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.

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 (Mathews no. 3426), female, September 1907 ; AMNH 696807 (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.