Ptilotis analoga vicina 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 : 76-77

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475831
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scientific name	Ptilotis analoga vicina Rothschild and Hartert
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Ptilotis analoga vicina Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Ptilotis analoga vicina Rothschild and Hartert, 1912: 203 (Sudest Islands) View in CoL .

Now Meliphaga vicina ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1912) View in CoL . See Rand, 1936: 21, Coates, 1990: 294, and Higgins et al., 2008: 591–592.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695918 View Materials , adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Tagula 5 Sudest ) Island, 11.30S, 153.30E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 April 1898, by A.S. Meek (no. 1696). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but did not mention other specimens. However, Hartert (1898a: 527), in his account of Meek’s 1898 collection from Tacuta, reported under Ptilotis notata that Meek sent a series of seven specimens. Only six of those specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The five paratypes in AMNH are: males, AMNH 695917 View Materials (Meek no. 1723), AMNH 695919 View Materials (1712) ; females, AMNH 695927– 695929 View Materials (1603, 1743, 1785) .