Gliciphila fasciata broomei Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 149

Gliciphila fasciata broomei Mathews

Gliciphila fasciata broomei Mathews, 1912b: 49 (Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia).

Now Ramsayornis fasciatus (Gould, 1843) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 432, Ford, 1986: 102, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 320, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 627–628.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692357 , adult male, collected at Pago Mission (5 Mission Station , as on label), 14.01S, 126.43E (Times Atlas), Napier Broome Bay, Western Australia, Australia, on 26 April 1910, by G.F. Hill. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5782) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Northwest Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Hill’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following specimens are paratypes: Napier Broome Bay, collected by Hill, AMNH 692358 (Mathews no. 5785), 20 December 1909, AMNH 692359 (5784), 2 December 1909, AMNH 692360 (5783), 29 January 1910, AMNH 692361 (5786), 2 December 1909, AMNH 692362 (5781), 27 April 1910, females ; Parry Creek , 5 September 1908, collected by J.P. Rogers, AMNH 692363 (3093), AMNH 692364 (3094), males, AMNH 692365 (3095), AMNH 692366 (3096), females ; Pentecost River , collected by C.P. Conigrave, AMNH 692370 (10436), 16 July 1911, sex?. AMNH 692367 , and 692368 from northwest Australia were not cataloged until after broomei was published on 2 April 1912, and AMNH 692369 was never in Mathews’ collection .