Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis
Mathews
Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis
Mathews, 1912a: 415
(
Victoria
)
.
Now
Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae
(Latham, 1790)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 427
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 692179
, adult male, collected at
Olinda
,
37.51S
,
145.22E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Victoria
,
Australia
, on
17 April 1911
, by Thomas Tregellas. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9062) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘
Victoria
.’’ The
holotype
bears, in addition to Tregellas’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a label marked ‘‘Figured’’ in Mathews’ hand, indicating that it was the model for
Mathews (1925a
: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 16), where it is confirmed as the type of
assimilis
.
The following specimens are
paratypes
of
assimilis
: Frankston,
AMNH 692165
(Mathews no. 3322), male,
25 September 1908
;
Olinda,
AMNH 692166
(9064), male,
17 April 1911
;
AMNH 692168
(10104), female,
8 July 1911
;
AMNH 692169
(10108), male,
14 October 1911
;
AMNH 692172
(10107), male,
10 September 1911
;
AMNH 692175
(9065), male,
13 May 1911
;
AMNH 692178
(10106), male (cataloged as a female),
8 July 1911
;
AMNH 692180
(4971), female,
7 June 1909
;
AMNH 692181
(9063), female,
13 May 1911
;
AMNH 692183
(10105), female,
8 July 1911
;
AMNH 692185
(5055), sex?,
3 June 1907
;
AMNH 692186
(5056), sex?,
6 June 1908
;
Aspendale Park,
AMNH 692190
(3319), female,
15 July 1906
. The following specimens were collected before
assimilis
was published on
31 January 1912
, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog
;
they are possible
paratypes
: Olinda,
AMNH 692176
, male,
30 January 1909
;
AMNH 692177
, male,
14 July 1901
;
AMNH 692182
, female,
15 August 1908
;
Bayswater,
AMNH 692187
, male,
4 May 1907
.