Nesoptilotis leucotis woolundra Mathews, 1922

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 : 101

[ Nesoptilotis leucotis woolundra Mathews ]

Mathews (1922b: 13) based his description of woolundra on a specimen collected at Woolundra, southwest Australia, by Thomas Carter on 28 March 1922, but did not say that the specimen was in his collection. No such specimen came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Warren and Harrison (1971: 600) claim a holotype of this form in BMNH, purchased from the dealer Rosenberg in 1931; however, the date on that specimen is said to be 22 March 1922. This form is now considered a synonym of Lichenostomus leucotis novaenorciae .