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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Ptilotis penicillata mellori
Mathews
Ptilotis penicillata mellori
Mathews, 1912a: 412
(
Victoria
)
.
Now
Lichenostomus penicillatus penicillatus
(Gould, 1837)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 381
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 255–256
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 608–609
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695638
, adult male, collected at
Templestowe
,
37.45S
,
145.07E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Victoria
, on
10 June 1901
, by
Thomas H. Tregellas
(no. 346).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 5123) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘
Victoria
.’’ The
holotype
bears, in addition to Tregellas’ original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1924
: pl. 540, bottom fig., opp. p. 548, text p. 549), where it is confirmed as the type of
mellori
.
Mathews (1913a: 281)
listed the type locality as ‘‘Templestown,’’ later correcting it (
Mathews, 1924: 549
) to Templestowe. The following specimens are
paratypes
:
AMNH 695614
(Mathews no. 8152), unsexed, Frankston,
20 March 1908
;
AMNH 695615
(6275), male,
Parwan
,
14 August 1910
;
AMNH 695629
(5949), male juvenile, Auburn,
7 September 1910
;
AMNH 695630
(5950), female juvenile, Auburn,
13 September 1910
, described in
Mathews (1924: 550–551)
;
AMNH 695639
(5122), female, Templestowe,
10 June 1901
. The following specimens were collected early enough to have been in Mathews’ hand when
mellori
was named, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and they could have reached him later: AMNH 695610, male, Frankston,
9 April 1910
; AMNH 695611, male, Frankston,
19 December 1909
; AMNH 695612, female, Frankston,
17 April 1908
; AMNH 695613, female, Frankston,
21 April 1908
; AMNH 695628, male immature, Auburn,
6 July 1905
. Other Victorian specimens in AMNH were either collected too late or were never in Mathews’ collection.