Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius
Mathews
Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius
Mathews, 1923b: 38
(Stirling Ranges, South-west
Australia
).
Now
Phylidonyris novaehollandiae longirostris
(Gould, 1846)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 428
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668
.
HOLOTYPE
OR
SYNTYPE
?:
AMNH
692127
, female, collected in the Stirling Range,
34.24S
,
118.02E
(
Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 513
),
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
17 July 1911
, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 10618) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS:
Mathews
did not designate a
type
in the original description, only saying that the
type
was from the
Stirling
Range
;
he cataloged a single specimen and a single specimen came to
AMNH
.
It
bears
Whitlock’s
original label, a
Rothschild Collection
label printed ‘‘
Ex.
coll.
G.M. Mathews
,’’ and a
Rothschild
type
label, filled in by hand unknown
.
Although Whitlock’s original label is present on this specimen and it is labeled ‘‘
Stirling
Ranges,’’ judging from its date of collection, it actually may have been collected near Whitlock’s home at Wilson Inlet (
Whittell, 1954: 765
).
Whitlock (1912: 239)
said that he left his home on
1 August 1911
to make his second trip into the
Stirling
Range. Both of his trips into the
Stirling
Range (
Whitlock, 1911
,
1912
) were made for H.L. White, and there may be additional specimens, perhaps
syntypes
, in the H.L. White Collection in NMV.