Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli

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 : 143

[ Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli Mathews]

Based on specimens from Kangaroo Island, A.G. Campbell (1906: 140) named both Meliornis (Lichmera) australasiana subsp. halmaturina , now Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera halmaturina , and Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina , now in Phylidonyris , the former name having line precedence over the latter in homonymy. Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli was provided by Mathews as a replacement name for Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina A.G. Campbell, 1906 . Despite the fact that Mathews (1923b: 38) called campbelli a new subspecies, he ( Mathews, 1925a: 22) later made it clear that he intended it as a replacement name: ‘‘As both [of Campbell’s names] are here grouped in the same genus the last named one [ Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina ] must be invalid and I have renamed it.’’ As such, it has the same type as Campbell’s original name, a type that is in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.). See Schodde and Mason (1999: 312, nomenclatural note).