Ptilotis sonora decipiens 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 : 82

Ptilotis sonora decipiens Mathews

Ptilotis sonora decipiens Mathews, 1912a: 406 (North-West Australia (Mungi)).

Now Lichenostomus virescens forresti ( Ingram, 1906) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 375, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234–235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694860 , adult female, collected at Mungi Rockhole , 18.45S, 123.44E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 21 June 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1793). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9269) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Interior North-West Australia.’’ When this specimen was cataloged at AMNH, an incorrect AMNH catalog number (695860) was put on both the Rogers label and the Rothschild type label. The correct AMNH number of this holotype is AMNH 694860 . In addition to Rogers’ original label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are five specimens from interior West Kimberley, cataloged by Mathews as ‘‘ Fitzroy River’ ’ and collected by J.P. Rogers, that I consider paratypes: Mungi Rock Hole, males, AMNH 694857 (Mathews no. 9266), AMNH 694858 (9270), 17 June 1911 ; females, AMNH 694859 (9271), 17 June 1911, AMNH 694861 (9264), 26 June 1911 ; 14 miles northwest of Mount Alexander , male, AMNH 694872 (9268), 12 June 1911 .