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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2011
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Ptilotis ornata munna
Mathews
Ptilotis ornata munna
Mathews, 1912a: 410
(West
Australia
(Stirling Ranges)).
Now
Lichenostomus ornatus
(Gould, 1838)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 383
,
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 248
,
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 606
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695324
, adult male, collected at
Lake Balicup
,
34.16S
,
117.47E
(
USBGN
, 1957),
Stirling Range
,
Western Australia
,
Australia
, on
12 September 1910
, by F.L. W[hitlock].
From
the
Mathews Collection
(no. 6175) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range of
munna
as ‘‘
Western Australia
(Stirling Ranges).’’
The
holotype
bears in addition to
Whitlock’s
label,
Mathews
and
Rothschild
type labels.
Only
the
three specimens
collected by
Whitlock
in the
Stirling Range
in 1910 were in
Mathews’
collection when
munna
was described. Other specimens collected in 1911 were not cataloged by
Mathews
until
24 February 1912
, after the publication of
munna
on
31 January 1912
.
Paratypes
are:
Lake Balicup
,
Stirling Range
,
AMNH 695323
(Mathews no. 6174), female,
12 September 1910
;
Stirling Range
,
AMNH 695332
(6173), unsexed,
7 September 1910
.
Whitlock (1911)
reported on this trip
.