Ptilotis sonora westwoodia 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 : 81

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475843
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scientific name	Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews
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Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews, 1913d: 77 (Westwood, Queensland).

Now Lichenostomus virescens sonorus (Gould, 1841) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694911 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Westwood , 23.37S, 150.09E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in October 1881, by Carl Lumholtz. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11079) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews listed the type of westwoodia as a specimen collected at Westwood in October 1881 and gave no range. The holotype is the only specimen that Mathews had from Westwood and was from the collection mostly made by C. Lumholtz and K. Dahl that he obtained from R. Collett, ZMO. It bears Lumholtz’s original label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, and a Rothschild type label. Mathews’ catalog number is written on the Mathews label but was not cited in the original description.

Salomonsen (1967: 374) recognized westwoodia as a subspecies of Meliphaga virescens .

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.

Mathews, G. M. 1913 d. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Record 2: 73 - 79.

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.