Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Philemon orientalis didimus
Mathews
Philemon orientalis didimus
Mathews, 1912a: 423
(
South Australia
).
Now
Philemon citreogularis citreogularis
(Gould, 1837)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 404
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 287–288
,
Christidis and Boles,
2008: 185–191, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 684– 685
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 696805
, adult male, collected in
South Australia
, no date.
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 4174) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the
holotype
and the range of
didimus
as ‘‘
South Australia
,
Victoria
.’’ Mathews obtained the
holotype
from the Rothschild Collection and cataloged it on
20 February 1910
. The original Rothschild label has been removed, and it is interesting that no Rothschild label, printed ‘‘Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ was ever attached to it when it went back to the Rothschild Collection. It bears the original label with minimal data and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. This was apparently the only specimen from
South Australia
or
Victoria
that Mathews had. The species is extremely rare and localized in
South Australia
, occurring only in the riverine woodlands of the Murray River upstream from Renmark (R. Schodde, personal commun.).