Ptilotis chrysotis saturatior Rothschild and 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 : 104

Ptilotis chrysotis saturatior Rothschild and Hartert

Ptilotis chrysotis saturatior Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 445 (Wanambei, Kobroor) .

Now Xanthotis flaviventer saturatior (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227–228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696101 , adult male, collected on the Manambei Channel (5 Wanambei 5 Sg [Sungai] Wanoembai, as on label), 05.57S, 134.34E ( USBGN, 1982a), Kobroor Island , Aru Islands , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 1 September 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2425). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Kühn’s number of the holotype in the original description and listed the nine specimens in their type series. The eight paratypes are: Trangan Island, AMNH 696098 , male, 16 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 260) ; Sungai Bark, AMNH 696099 , female, 26 August 1900, by Kühn (no. 2428) ; Sg. Wanoembai, AMNH 696100 , female, 2 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 2426), AMNH 696102 , sex?, 22 June 1896, by Caley Webster (no. 193), from spirits ; Wokan Island , AMNH 696103 , male, 4 October 1900, by Kühn (no. 200), AMNH 696104 , male, by Beccari (from spirits), AMNH 696105 , sex?, by Beccari (from spirits), AMNH 696106 , female, 26 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 201) .