Entomyzon cyanotis connectens 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 : 117

Entomyzon cyanotis connectens Mathews

Entomyzon cyanotis connectens Mathews, 1912a: 421 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now considered intergradient between E. c. cyanotis and E. c. griseigularis. See Salomonsen, 1967: 399, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 274–275, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 676.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691770 , adult male, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 16 April 1907, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 016). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3399) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Mid- Queensland.’’ Even in the original description, Mathews drew attention to the intermediate nature of this subspecies, both through the name applied to it and in the description. The holotype bears, in addition to Stalker’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 514, opp. p. 289, text p. 291), where it is confirmed as the type of connectens. The ‘‘813’’ on Stalker’s label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). There are five paratypes in AMNH: Mackay, AMNH 691766 (Mathews no. 6442), AMNH 691767 (6441), AMNH 691768 (6440); Inkerman, AMNH 691771 (3400), male, 14 March 1907; AMNH 691772 (3402), female, 16 April 1907.

Of the four specimens Ingram (1908) listed from Stalker’s collection at Inkerman, only three were cataloged by Mathews. The three specimens from Mackay were purchased by Mathews from the dealer Gerrard and have no data other than the locality.