Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen

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 : 87

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scientific name	Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen
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Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen, 1966a: 6 (Margaret River, Kimberley Division, northern Western Australia).

Now Lichenostomus flavescens flavescens (Gould, 1840) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 253–254, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 608.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695517 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Margaret River Crossing (5 Margaret River), 18.29S, 126.36E ( Storr, 1966: 61), Kimberley Division, Western Australia, Australia, on 20 April 1902, by J.T. Tunney (no. R435). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Margaret River .’’ There is one paratype: AMNH 695518 About AMNH , male, collected on the Margaret River , 20 April 1902 by Tunney (no. R434). These two specimens had been in the Tunney collection reported on by Hartert (1905a: 234) and had been part of the Rothschild share of the collection ; they had not been in the Mathews Collection. See Storr (1966: 59– 65) for Tunney’s itinerary.

References

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

Hartert, E. 1905 a. List of birds collected in northwestern Australia and Arnhem-land by Mr. J. T. Tunney. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 194 - 242.

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.

Salomonsen, F. 1966 a. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora 254: 1 - 12.

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

Storr, G. M. 1966. J. T. Tunney's itinerary in northern Australia 1901 - 1903. Emu 66: 59 - 65.