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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Philemon buceroides yorki
Mathews
Philemon buceroides yorki
Mathews, 1912d: 102
(Cape
York
,
Queensland
).
Now
Philemon buceroides yorki
Mathews, 1912
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 410
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 680– 681
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 697065
, adult male, collected at
Utingu
,
Cape York
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, on
13 May 1912
, by
Robin Kemp
(no. 867).
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 12897) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
yorki
as ‘‘Cape
York
.’’ The specimen bears Kemp’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this specimen was illustrated in
Mathews (1925a
: pl. 555, lower fig. labeled
Neophilemon yorki
, opp. p. 103, text p. 104), where it is confirmed as the type of
yorki
. The type also bears a tag annotated by Mathews: ‘‘To Gron old, Note bare skin, low down on neck;’’ this is undoubtedly a note to the artist, H. Grönvold. Only specimens collected by Kemp on Cape
York
in
April and May 1912
were cataloged by Mathews before the publication of
yorki
on
18 September 1912
. These
four specimens
are
paratypes
:
AMNH 697066
(Mathews no. 13209), male, Utingu, 23 May;
AMNH 697079
(12758), female, Thursday Island (but cataloged as Cape
York
), 30 April;
AMNH 697080
(12898), female, Utingu, 10 May;
AMNH 697081
(13210), female, Utingu, 23 May. See below for a discussion of the complicated nomenclature of the Australian forms of
P. buceroides
.
Utingu was a coconut plantation opposite Possession Island (
Jack, 1921: 342
),
10.43S
,
142.24E
(USBGN, 1957).