Ptilotis unicolor darbiski Mathews

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 : 102

Ptilotis unicolor darbiski Mathews

Ptilotis unicolor darbiski Mathews, 1912a: 413 (North-West Australia (Fitzroy River)).

Now Lichenostomus unicolor (Gould, 1843) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 386, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 238, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 601–602.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695723 , adult male, collected at Udialla (5 Eudialla Spring, as on label), 17.58S, 123.45E ( USBGN, 1957), Fitzroy River, West Kimberley , Western Australia, on 7 June 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1737). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9245) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and said that the range of darbiski was ‘‘ North-West Australia.’’ In addition to Rogers’ label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype bears a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 541, left fig., opp. p. 562, text p. 566), where it is confirmed as the type of darbiski. Paratypes are Mathews specimens from northwestern Australian that were cataloged before publication of darbiski on 31 January 1912: 14 miles west of Mount Anderson, Fitzroy River, 1911, AMNH 695721 (Mathews no. 9243), AMNH 695722 (9244), females, 17 July ; Napier Broome Bay , 1910, AMNH 695728 (5760), male, 20 February ; AMNH 695729 (6239), male, 22 June ; AMNH 695730 (5761), female, 20 February ; AMNH 695731 (6240), female, 21 June ; Parry Creek , 1908, AMNH 695732 (3306), AMNH 695733 (3307), males, 20 October ; Parry Harbour , 1909, AMNH 695736 (5762), female, 16 November ; Parry Creek , AMNH 695741 (3309), AMNH 695742 (3310), females, 23 October 1908 ; AMNH 695743 (3308), female, 12 October 1908 ; AMNH 695744 (3312), unsexed, 1 September 1908 ; AMNH 695745 (3311), unsexed, 8 February 1909 .