Myzantha obscura ortoni Ashby

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 : 159

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scientific name	Myzantha obscura ortoni Ashby
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Myzantha obscura ortoni Ashby, 1922: 254 (Moora and?).

Now considered an intergrade between Manorina flavigula wayensis View in CoL and M. f. obscura View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 441, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 269–273, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 617–618.

SYNTYPE: AMNH 178376, immature male, collected at Moora, 30.39S, 116.01E (USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 10 November 1920, by Edwin Ashby.

COMMENTS: In his description of ortoni, Ashby said that he had four specimens in his collection, two of which were collected by him at Moora (the collecting localities of the other two were not given), and one specimen from Esperance Bay in the H.L. White Collection. The above specimen was among over 100 specimens that Ashby exchanged with AMNH in 1923 ; it had not previously been recognized as a type. It was badly shot up and is in poor condition. The Esperance Bay syntype from the H.L. White Collection is in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.) The other Moora specimen mentioned by Ashby is not in SAMA (P. Horton, personal commun.) or in ANSP (N. Rice, personal commun.) .