Philemon citreogularis carpentariae 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 : 122

Philemon citreogularis carpentariae Salomonsen

Philemon citreogularis carpentariae Salomonsen, 1966: 8 (Normanton, northwestern Queensland, Australia).

Now considered intergradient between Philemon c. sordidus and P. c. citreogularis . See Salomonsen, 1967: 405, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 287–288, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 684–685.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696823 , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.04S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 1 May 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 445). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as the southern coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The holotype was one of 24 specimens collected by Kemp for Mathews, but not entered in his catalog. The 23 paratypes of carpentariae are: Normanton, AMNH 696811–696822, 696824–696834, 14 males, five females, three sex?, one juvenile, collected between October 1913 and May 1914.