Melithreptus gularis ingrami 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 : 114-115

publication ID	0003-0090
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scientific name	Melithreptus gularis ingrami Mathews
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Melithreptus gularis ingrami Mathews, 1912a: 393 (Inkerman, Queensland).

Now considered an intergrade between M. g. gularis View in CoL and M. g. laetior View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276– 277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691543 View Materials , adult male, collected at Inkerman , Spring Range, 34.05S, 150.04E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in September 1907, by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2982) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range as ‘‘Mid- Queensland.’’ The holotype bears the original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Stalker collected only two specimens (see Ingram, 1908: 475, under M. laetior ). The paratype is AMNH 691544, female, Inkerman, 14 March 1907.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Meliphagidae
Genus	Melithreptus