Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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0003-0090
Ptilotis sonora westwoodia
Mathews
Ptilotis sonora westwoodia
Mathews, 1913d: 77
(Westwood,
Queensland
).
Now
Lichenostomus virescens sonorus
(Gould, 1841)
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 598
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694911
, adult male, collected at
Westwood
,
23.37S
,
150.09E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Queensland
,
Australia
, in
October 1881
, by Carl Lumholtz. From the
Mathews Collection
(no. 11079) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews listed the type of
westwoodia
as a specimen collected at Westwood in
October 1881
and gave no range. The
holotype
is the only specimen that Mathews had from Westwood and was from the collection mostly made by C. Lumholtz and K. Dahl that he obtained from R. Collett, ZMO. It bears Lumholtz’s original label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, and a Rothschild type label. Mathews’ catalog number is written on the Mathews label but was not cited in the original description.
Salomonsen (1967: 374)
recognized
westwoodia
as a subspecies of
Meliphaga virescens
.