Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author 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 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews, 1912a: 403 (North Queensland (Cairns)). Now Meliphaga gracilis imitatrix (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 261–262 , Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 592 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 695868 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S , 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland , Australia , in October 1909 , by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3157) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of imitatrix as ‘‘ North Queensland .’’ In addition to the Mathews Collection label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924 : pl. 528, upper fig., opp. p. 430, text p. 434) where it is confirmed as the type of imitatrix . The following specimens were in the Mathews Collection before imitatrix was published on 31 January 1912 and are paratypes : AMNH 695859 , female, Johnstone River on 22 June 1900 , by E. Olive ; AMNH 695865 ( Mathews’ no. 9537), female, Barron River , 26 July 1910 , by the Dodds ; AMNH 695869 (3158), female, Cairns , July 1908 , by P. Schraeder. AMNH 695867 (10285), sex?, Barron River , 26 July 1910 , by the Dodds , was perhaps in Mathews’ hands when the name was published, but it was not cataloged until 13 February 1912 . I have considered AMNH 695859 a paratype , although I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog ; Mathews purchased Olive’s collection from Robinson and cataloged it in 1910. AMNH 695870 , collected at Cairns in 1888 by T.H. Bowyer Bower was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913. Other specimens of this form now in AMNH , either were never in Mathews’ Collection or were collected after the date of publication of the name .