Ptilotis visi Hartert

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 : 105

Ptilotis visi Hartert

Ptilotis visi Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896a: 15 (Mailu district).

Now Xanthotis flaviventer visi (Hartert, 1896) . See Coates, 1990: 275–277, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227–228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696126 , adult male, collected in the Mailu district , Central Province, Papua New Guinea, July–August 1895, by A.S. Anthony. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as the type of visi the single male of the four specimens collected by Anthony in the Mailu district . He listed other specimens that he included in his new species and, for Salvadori’s specimens, gave the letters assigned by Salvadori (1881: 346). All of the paratypes are now in AMNH: Fly River, AMNH 696116 , male, 30 June 1876, D’Albertis no. 258, AMNH 696117 , male, 13 May 1877, D’Albertis no. 211 ; Mailu district , collected by Anthony in July–August 1895, AMNH 696127 , female, AMNH 696128 , sex?, AMNH 696129 , sex ?; Naiabui , AMNH 696130 , male, August 1875, D’Albertis no. 420, ‘‘v’’ of Salvadori, AMNH 696131 , male, August 1875, D’Albertis no. 413, ‘‘u’’ of Salvadori, AMNH 696132 , male, September 1877, D’Albertis no. 568, ‘‘x’’ of Salvadori ; South New Guinea (5 Hall Sound), AMNH 696135 , male, 11 May 1875, D’Albertis no. 158, ‘‘r’’ of Salvadori, AMNH 696136 , female, 10 May 1875, D’Albertis no. 146, ‘‘q’’ of Salvadori. AMNH 696116 , 696117 , 696130–696132 , 696135 , and 696136 are also paratypes of giulianettii, see above .

Rothschild and Hartert (1896a: 8) gave an itinerary for Anthony during the period when the holotype was collected. Mailu Island (10.25S, 149.20E, USBGN, 1943) is in Amazon Bay.