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 melanops meltoni Mathews Ptilotis melanops meltoni Mathews, 1912a: 408 ( Victoria ) . Now Lichenostomus melanops meltoni (Mathews, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 385 , Schodde and Mason, 1999: 243–244 , Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 604– 605 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 695203 , adult female, collected at Melton , 37.41S , 144.35E ( USBGN , 1957), Victoria , Australia , on 8 June 1908 , by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1532) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Victoria .’’ In addition to a small field tag and Tregellas’ original label, the specimen bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1924 : pl. 536, upper fig., opp. p. 503, text p. 508), where it is confirmed as the type of meltoni . Paratypes are specimens collected in Victoria and cataloged before 31 January 1912 , the publication date of meltoni : AMNH 695199 (Mathews no. 5121), male, Melton , 8 June 1908 , received from Tregellas but collected by C. Cole ; AMNH 695205 , AMNH 695206 (3235), and AMNH 695207 (3234), females, Stawell , 15, 28, and 15 September 1908 , respectively, by L.G. Chandler ; AMNH 695215 (3236), female, Little River , 31 August 1908 , by Chandler. One number in Mathews catalog probably represented both AMNH 695205 and 695206. A number of other specimens are probably paratypes , but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Melton , AMNH 695198 , male, 6 June 1910 , by Chandler ; AMNH 695200 , male, 8 June 1908 , by Cole ; AMNH 695201 , male, 6 June 1910 , by Wilson ; AMNH 695202 , male, 8 June 1908 , by Cole ; AMNH 695204 , female, 8 June 1908 , by Cole ; Stawell , AMNH 695208 , female, 13 September 1908 , collector ?. W. Longmore (personal commun.) noted that suitable habitat for this form occurs north and west but not at Melton proper and that Melton, as a train stop, may represent only an approximate locality from which the holotype was collected.