Nesoptilotis flavicollis flindersi Mathews

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Nesoptilotis flavicollis flindersi Mathews

Nesoptilotis flavicollis flindersi Mathews, 1916a: 62 (Flinders Island).

Now Lichenostomus flavicollis (Vieillot, 1817) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 385, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 242, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 603–604.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 695001 (Mathews no. 16286), male juvenile, Lady Barron (40.12S, 148.14E, USBGN, 1957), 21 November, by J.B. Cleland (no. 271) ; AMNH 695002 (15717), adult male, 27 November, AMNH 695003 (15718), male, 22 November, AMNH 695004 (15715), female, 26 November, AMNH 695005 (15716), female, 27 November, all by S.A. White (nos. 1112, 1080, 1114, and 1113, respectively). All of the syntypes were collected on Flinders Island , 40.00S, 148.00E ( USBGN, 1957), Furneaux Group , Tasmania, Australia, in 1912. From the Mathews Collection (no. 15717) via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews did not designate a type or indicate the number of specimens in his type series. There are five specimens in AMNH from the Mathews Collection and one specimen in SAMA in the S.A. White Collection that were collected on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union camp-out on Flinders Island on 20–28 November 1912 (see Mellor and White, 1913, where this species is listed as Ptilotis flavigula ). Even though AMNH 695002 is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews and bears a Rothschild type label, I have found no indication that it was ever designated the lectotype. The divided present distribution of these specimens indicates that all six should be considered syntypes, and AMNH type labels have been added to the other four syntypes in AMNH. AMNH 695001 is described, but not figured, by Mathews (1924: 485).