Meliornis novaehollandiae subassimilis 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 : 142

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477543
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scientific name	Meliornis novaehollandiae subassimilis Mathews
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Treatment

Meliornis novaehollandiae subassimilis Mathews, 1912a: 415 (South Australia (Mt. Lofty Ranges)).

Now Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 427, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692158 View Materials , adult male, collected in the Mount Lofty Range , 35.00S, 138.50E ( USBGN, 1957), east of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, on 35 July 1911, by S.A. White (no. 11). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9298) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of subassimilis as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ The holotype bears White’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following AMNH specimens are paratypes: AMNH 692141 View Materials (9671), male, Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula , 27 August 1911, by S.A. White ; AMNH 692142 View Materials (9670), immature male, Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula , 23 August 1911, by S.A. White ; AMNH 692157 View Materials (Mathews no. 9701), male, Mount Lofty Range , 12 August 1911, by S.A. White ; AMNH 692162 View Materials (8942), male, Coonalpyn , 17 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland ; AMNH 692163 View Materials (8941), juvenile, Coonalpyn, 17 May 1911, by Cleland. AMNH 692156 View Materials , male, Mount Lofty Range , 23 May 1910, by S.A. White is also probably a paratype, but I did not find it in Mathews catalog. Other Mathews specimens in AMNH from South Australia were either collected after the 31 January 1912 publication of subassimilis or were undated. There is an additional paratype in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .

AMNH 692142, immature male, is marked ‘‘described’’ on a label and was the specimen used for the description of the immature male ( Mathews, 1925a: 16–17). AMNH 692162 bears a blank Rothschild type label and Cleland’s label is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Mathews’ hand, but no evidence has been discovered that a name was based on this specimen; the type label has been so annotated and the specimen returned to the general collection.