Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Ptilotis fasciogularis brunnescens
Mathews
Ptilotis fasciogularis brunnescens
Mathews, 1912a: 407
(North
Queensland
).
Now
Lichenostomus fasciogularis
(Gould, 1854)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 376
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 237
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 601
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 694919
, [male], collected in
Queensland
, in
November 1892
.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 7772) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description, where he gave both the collecting locality and the range of the form as ‘‘North Queensland.’’ The original label on the
holotype
gives the locality as ‘‘(Cape
York
) Queensland,’’ but there is no indication of the collector. Catalog no. 7772 was part of the Thorpe Collection, which
Mathews (1942: 53)
purchased from T. Thorpe in
England
and cataloged in
February 1911
. The
holotype
bears in addition Rothschild and Mathews type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in
Mathews (1924
: pl. 532, upper fig., opp. p. 470, text p. 473), where it is confirmed as the type of
brunnescens
and where Mathews restricted the type locality to the Burnett River. A possible source of this restriction is a statement in
Mathews (1924: 474–475)
that Campbell had received a specimen, nest, and eggs from G.A. Young, who said that the species ‘‘is plentiful in the mangroves bordering the Burnett River. …’’ Mathews apparently never cited ‘‘Cape York’’ with regard to the collecting locality of his
holotype
, and the species does not reach Cape
York
. The true collecting locality of the
holotype
remains unknown.
In addition to the
holotype
, Mathews had
three specimens
collected by W. Stalker (
Ingram, 1908: 476
) at Inkerman. These are
paratypes
of
brunnescens
:
AMNH 694916
(Mathews no. 3221), male,
18 April 1907
;
AMNH 694917
(3219), unsexed;
AMNH 694918
(3220), unsexed. Of these three, only the first has Stalker’s original label and it is dated 1907(although this is incorrectly listed as ‘‘1908’’ in Mathews’ catalog and copied as ‘‘1908’’ on the Rothschild label. The other two have only Mathews Collection labels, and they are dated
April 1908
. They were probably all collected in
April 1907
, as
Ingram (1908: 458)
said that Stalker began collecting at Inkerman in early 1907, and all of the dates cited by Ingram are in 1907.
Ford (1978)
considered these specimens intermediate between
L. versicolor versicolor
and
L. fasciogularis
but closer to
fasciogularis
.