Ptilotis sonora cooperi 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 : 83-84

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Ptilotis sonora cooperi Mathews View in CoL

Ptilotis sonora cooperi Mathews, 1912b: 50 View in CoL (Melville Island, Northern Territory).

Now Lichenostomus virescens cooperi (Mathews, 1912) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234–235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694886 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Coopers Camp , Apsley Strait, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia, on 29 October 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 2298). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10743) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of the form as ‘‘Melville Island.’’ The holotype bears in addition to Rogers’ original label, a Rothschild type label, and Mathews type and ‘‘Figured’’ labels, the latter indicating that the type is illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 531, right hand fig., opp. p. 458, text p. 460) where the figured male is confirmed as the type of P. s. cooperi.

Mathews (1912b: 26) noted that he had received two shipments of Melville Island specimens from Rogers ; these included specimens collected in October and November 1911 and cataloged by Mathews on 24 February and 20 March 1912. There is a single paratype: AMNH 694887 About AMNH (Mathews no. 10744), female, collected at Coopers Camp on 28 October 1911 by Rogers (no. 2299) .

Coopers Camp was on Melville Island, across Apsley Strait from the Bathurst Island Mission Station ( Hart and Pilling, 1964: 101), 11.45S, 130.41E (Times Atlas).

References

Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.

Hart, C. W. M., and A. R. Pilling. 1964. The Tiwi of north Australia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 118 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.

Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.

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

Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.