Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Ptilotis sonora decipiens
Mathews
Ptilotis sonora decipiens
Mathews, 1912a: 406
(North-West
Australia
(Mungi)).
Now
Lichenostomus virescens forresti
(
Ingram, 1906
)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 375
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234–235
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 598
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694860
, adult female, collected at
Mungi Rockhole
,
18.45S
,
123.44E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511
),
8 miles
southeast of
Mount Alexander
,
West Kimberley
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
21 June 1911
, by
J.P. Rogers
(no. 1793).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 9269) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘
Interior North-West
Australia
.’’
When
this specimen was cataloged at
AMNH
, an incorrect
AMNH
catalog number (695860) was put on both the
Rogers
label and the
Rothschild
type label.
The
correct
AMNH
number of this
holotype
is
AMNH 694860
. In addition to Rogers’ original label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are
five specimens
from interior
West Kimberley
, cataloged by
Mathews
as ‘‘
Fitzroy River’
’ and collected by
J.P. Rogers
, that I consider
paratypes
:
Mungi Rock Hole
, males,
AMNH 694857
(Mathews no. 9266),
AMNH 694858
(9270),
17 June 1911
;
females,
AMNH 694859
(9271),
17 June 1911
,
AMNH 694861
(9264),
26 June 1911
;
14 miles
northwest of
Mount Alexander
, male,
AMNH 694872
(9268),
12 June 1911
.