Ptilotis ornata wesleydalei 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 : 98

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Ptilotis ornata wesleydalei Mathews, 1913c: 68 (Broome Hill, South-west Australia).

Now Lichenostomus ornatus (Gould, 1838) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 383, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 248, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695336 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Broomehill , 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, Australia, on 16 June 1908, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3260) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of wesleydalei as ‘‘Inland districts of South-west Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Carter’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 538, lower fig., opp. p. 524, text p. 531) where it is confirmed as the type of wesleydalei. Paratypes, all collected at Broomehill by Carter, are: AMNH 695335 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3258), male, 16 October 1905 ; AMNH 695337 About AMNH (3259), male, 17 September 1906 ; AMNH 695344 About AMNH , female, 17 September 1906. Two additional specimens may be paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 695333 About AMNH , male, 6 August 1910 ; AMNH 695334 About AMNH , male, 27 May 1910. Mathews often did not catalog specimens he received from Carter, perhaps because he received them frequently, a few at a time. Other specimens in AMNH from inland southwest Australia had never been in Mathews’ 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.

Johnstone, R. E., and G. M. Storr. 2004. Handbook of Western Australian birds. Vol. 2. Passerines. Perth: Western Australian Museum, 529 pp.

Mathews, G. M. 1913 c. Additions and corrections to my reference list. Austral Avian Record 2: 63 - 71.

Mathews, G. M. 1924. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11, pts. 4 - 9. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 209 - 593, pls. 509 - 541.

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.