Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Ptilotis penicillata whitei
Mathews
Ptilotis penicillata whitei
Mathews, 1912a: 412
(
South Australia
(Murray Flats)).
Now
Lichenostomus penicillatus penicillatus
(Gould, 1837)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 381
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 255–256
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 608–609
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695602
, adult male, collected on
Murray Flats
,
14 miles
west of
Blanchetown
,
34.21S
,
139.38E
(Times Atlas),
South Australia
,
Australia
, on
30 May 1911
, by
J.B. Cleland. From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 8945) via the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
and gave the range as ‘‘
South Australia
.’’ In addition to Cleland’s original label, the
holotype
also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. This is probably the specimen reported by
Cleland (1912: 17)
. The following specimens from
South Australia
were cataloged by Mathews prior to publication of the name on
31 January 1912
and are
paratypes
:
AMNH 695594
(
Mathews
no. 9943), male,
A.
Gum Creek
,
Flinders Range
, northeast of
Port Augusta
,
10 October 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 336)
;
AMNH 695595
(9942), male,
Flinders Range
, northeast of
Port Augusta
,
10 October 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 248)
;
AMNH 695596
(3295), unsexed,
Adelaide
,
July 1902
;
AMNH 695597
(9704), male immature,
Mount Lofty Range
, east of
Adelaide
,
12 August 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 96)
;
AMNH 695598
(9705), male immature,
Mount Lofty Range
, east of
Adelaide
,
12 August 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 51)
;
AMNH 695599
(9703), female,
Mount Lofty Range
, east of
Adelaide
,
12 August 1911
, by
S.A. White
(no. 142)
;
AMNH 695604
(9478), male,
Fulham
,
South Australia
,
January 1911
, by
Mellor
;
AMNH 695608
(9479), female,
Fulham
,
January 1911
, by
Mellor.
AMNH 695594
and 695595 are also, respectively, the
paratype
and
holotype
of
P. p. rosinae
(see below).
AMNH 695605
,
695606
, and 695607 were collected at
Fulham
by
Mellor
in
July 1910
, but were not cataloged by
Mathews
until
24 February 1912
, and were then incorrectly attributed to
Whitlock in Mathews’
catalog
;
I do not consider them
paratypes
.
AMNH 695609
was collected at
Golden Grove
,
South Australia
, on
9 June 1900
by
Ashby
, but I did not find it in
Mathews’
catalog. Other specimens in
AMNH
were collected after the publication of
whitei
.
There
are also
paratypes
of this form in
SAMA
(
B. Blaylock
, personal commun.)
.