Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis, Salomonsen, 1966

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salo-

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salomonsen, 1966a: 7 (Normanton, northwestern Queensland, Australia).

Now considered an intergrade between M. g. gularis View in CoL and M. g. laetior View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276– 277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691532 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 31 January 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 3873). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Northwestern Queensland, south of Gulf of Carpentaria.’’ The following specimens are paratypes: Leichhardt River , 3 July 1910, AMNH 691529 About AMNH , male ; Normanton, collected by Kemp in 1913 and 1914, AMNH 691530 About AMNH , 691531 About AMNH , 691533–691542 About AMNH , five males, four females, two sex?, one juvenile. Salomonsen (1966a: 7) doubtfully included specimens from the Cooktown and Cairns areas ; therefore they are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1). I did not find 691542, juv., in the collection.

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.

Salomonsen, F. 1966 a. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora 254: 1 - 12.

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.