Broadbentia flava assimilis Mathews

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Broadbentia flava assimilis Mathews, 1924: 562 (near Cairns, North Queensland).

Now from an area of intergradation between Lichenostomus View in CoL f. flavus View in CoL and L. f. addendus. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 239, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 602.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695705 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in July 1911, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews named assimilis in volume 11, part 9, p. 562 of his Birds of Australia, which was published on 22 December 1924 (date on wrapper in AMNH Library, also Stone, 1927: 440). Mathews (1930: 783) himself first miscited the publication date as 1925 and various authors, including Salomonsen (1967: 373) have followed this citation. Mathews had a single specimen from Cairns collected in July 1911; it does not bear a Mathews or a Rothschild type label, but on the Rothschild Collection label, printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ Mathews has written ‘‘Figured.’’ The specimen was figured in Mathews (1924: pl. 541, opp. p. 562, right fig., text p. 562), where it is described and said to be the type of assimilis. An AMNH type label has been added. I did not find this specimen listed in Mathews’ catalog and he may have received it after he no longer entered specimens. There are four

additional Mathews specimens collected by Schraeder in August 1908 at Cairns, the only location mentioned in the description. These are paratypes: males, AMNH 695706 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3290), AMNH 695707 About AMNH (3289) ; females, AMNH 695708 About AMNH (3288), AMNH 695709 About AMNH (3287) .

See Joseph and Wilke (2007) for a comparison of apparent Pleistocene population expansion and mitochondrial DNA diversity in Lichenostomus 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.

Joseph, L., and T. Wilke. 2007. Lack of phylogeographic structure in three widespread Australian birds reinforces emerging challenges in Australian historical biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 34: 612 - 624.

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

Mathews, G. M. 1930. Systema avium Australasianarum. Part 2, 427 - 1048. London: British Ornithologists' Union.

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.

Stone, W. 1927. [Review of] Mathews's '' The birds of Australia. '' Auk 44: 435 - 442.