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
2011
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2011
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Ptilotula flavescens zanda
Mathews
Ptilotula flavescens zanda
Mathews, 1913d: 77
(Normanton,
Gulf
of Carpentaria).
Now
Lichenostomus flavescens flavescens
(Gould, 1840)
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 253–254
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 608
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695539
, adult female, collected at
Normanton
,
17.40S
,
141.05E
(Times Atlas),
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
9 October 1913
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 3288).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 18235) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave Kemp as the collector and
9 October 1913
as the date of collection of the
holotype
. No other specimen of
flavescens
in the Mathews Collection has those data. The
holotype
bears, in addition to Kemp’s original label and a Rothschild type label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews and with the number 788, which refers to this species in
Mathews (1908)
. No range was mentioned;
accordingly,
paratypes
would be other Normanton specimens cataloged before the publication of
zanda
on
29 December 1913
. Only
one specimen
is definitely a
paratype
:
AMNH 695540
(Mathews no. 18234), female, collected on
8 October 1913
and cataloged on
16 December 1913
, at the same time as the
holotype
. Three additional specimens were cataloged on
5 January 1914
and it is perhaps possible that they also should be considered
paratypes
:
AMNH 695519
(18398), male,
11 October 1913
;
AMNH 695537
(18396), female?,
11 October 1913
;
AMNH 695538
(18397), female?,
10 October 1913
.