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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Philemon corniculatus ellioti
Mathews
Philemon corniculatus ellioti
Mathews, 1912a: 423
(Mount Elliot, North
Queensland
).
Now
Philemon corniculatus corniculatus
(Latham, 1790)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 412
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 292–293
,
Dickinson, 2003: 437
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 682–683
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 696889
, adult male, collected on
Mount Elliot
,
19.30S
,
147.00E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
1 December 1907
, by
Wilfred Stalker
(no. 318).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 3423) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, giving the range of the form as ‘‘North
Queensland
.’’ The
holotype
bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and Stalker’s original label, the number ‘‘818’’ on the reverse referring to the number of this species in
Mathews (1908)
. This was the single specimen collected by Stalker in the vicinity of Inkerman (see
Ingram, 1908: 478
), and was the only specimen in Mathews’ possession when
ellioti
was named. It is the male described, but not figured, in
Mathews (1925a: 110)
. Two of Mathews’ specimens collected at Cairns and on the Barron River in 1884 by T.H. Bowyer Bower were not cataloged by Mathews until 1913, after the publication of
ellioti
.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 293)
discussed the type locality of nominate
P. corniculatus
and designated a
neotype
, with type locality on the Cape
York
Peninsula. The
holotype
of
ellioti
is from near Townsville, and within the range of
P. c.
corniculatus
, close to, but not from within, the zone of intergradation shown by
Schodde and Mason (1999: 292)
contra
Dickinson (2003: 437)
and
Higgins et al. (2008: 682)
.