Meliphaga virescens hartogi 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 : 80-81

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scientific name	Meliphaga virescens hartogi Mathews
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Meliphaga virescens hartogi Mathews, 1920: 76 (Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia).

Now Lichenostomus virescens virescens (Vieillot, 1817) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234–235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 694756 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Dirk Hartog Island , 25.50S, 113.05E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 26 April 1916, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type of hartogi was collected on Dirk Hartog Island on 26 April 1916. Two specimens from the Mathews collection were collected on that date. AMNH 694756 About AMNH bears a Rothschild type label and Carter’s original label, marked ‘‘hartogi Type’’ by Mathews. It was cataloged as the type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH. In order to remove the ambiguity arising from two specimens bearing the same date, I hereby designate AMNH 694756 About AMNH the lectotype of Meliphaga virescens hartogi , thereby confirming as type the specimen so indicated by Mathews. Paralectotypes in AMNH, all collected on Dirk Hartog Island in 1916, are: AMNH 694757 About AMNH , male, 23 April ; AMNH 694758 About AMNH , male, 26 April ; AMNH 694759 About AMNH , male, 30 September ; AMNH 694760 About AMNH , female, 30 September. All of these specimens were collected after Mathews stopped cataloging specimens .

A specimen from the H.L. White Collection is listed in the NMV type list as the holotype of M. v. hartogi , but Wayne Longmore (personal commun.) informs me that this specimen bears a different collection date and is not a type specimen.

Carter (1917: 609; 1921: 72) reported collecting this form on Dirk Hartog Island. Mees (1961b: 121) treated the taxonomy of this species, and he and Salomonsen (1967: 374) listed this form in the synonymy of nominate virescens in the genus Meliphaga .

References

Carter, T. 1917. The birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, Western Australia, 1916 - 17; with nomenclature and remarks by Gregory M. Mathews. Ibis (10) 5: 564 - 611.

Carter, T. 1921. On some Western Australian birds collected between the North-West Cape and Albany (950 miles apart). With nomenclature and remarks by Gregory M. Mathews. (concl.) Ibis (11) 3: 48 - 81.

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. 1920. [Mr. Gregory M. Mathews sent the following description of new subspecies of Australian birds: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40: 75 - 76.

Mees, G. F. 1961 b. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97 - 143.

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.