Ptilotis cratitia stirlingi Mathews

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Ptilotis cratitia stirlingi Mathews

Ptilotis cratitia stirlingi Mathews, 1912a: 409 (West Australia, Stirling Ranges).

Now Lichenostomus cratitius occidentalis Cabanis, 1851 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 380, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 245–246, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 605.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695220 , adult male, collected at Yetermirrup , Stirling Range, 34.24S, 118.02E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 513), Western Australia, Australia, on 28 September 1910, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6183) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Stirling Range. ’’ In addition to the original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype bears a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 537, middle fig., opp. p. 515, text p. 516) where it is confirmed as the type of stirlingi. The following specimens, all collected by Whitlock in the Stirling Range in 1910, are paratypes: AMNH 695218 (Mathews no. 6178), female, 11 September ; AMNH 695219 (6176), male, 18 September ; AMNH 695221 (6182), female, 20 September ; AMNH 695222 (6181), male, 6 September ; AMNH 695224 (6177), male, 19 October ; AMNH 695226 (6179), female, 19 October ; AMNH 695229 (6180), female, 19 October. Specimens collected in 1911 were not cataloged until 24 February 1912, after the publication of stirlingi on 31 January 1912 .

Whitlock (1911) reported on this trip to the Stirling Range. See Schodde and Mason (1999: 246) concerning use of occidentalis for mainland populations of L. cratitius .