Ptilotis keartlandi alexandrensis Mathews

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Ptilotis keartlandi alexandrensis Mathews

Ptilotis keartlandi alexandrensis Mathews, 1912a: 409 (Northern Territory (Alexandra)).

Now Lichenostomus keartlandi (North, 1895) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 381, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 247, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 605–606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695296 , male, collected at Alexandria (5 Alexandra), 19.00S, 136.42E (Times Atlas), Northern Territory, Australia, in July [1905], by Wilfred Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3247) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘Alexandra.’’ In addition to Stalker’s original label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. In this case, the correct Mathews catalog number is written on both (see previous entry). Mathews cataloged four specimens of this form from Alexandria, but Ingram (1907, 1909) listed only three collected by Stalker. These three specimens are in AMNH, and the two additional to the holotype are paratypes: AMNH 695295 (Mathews no. 3254), male, May 1905; AMNH 695297 (3252), unsexed, July 1905. The specimen Mathews cataloged at 3253 was a female collected at Alexandria in 1905, but it did not come to AMNH.