Ptilotis sonora murchisoni 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

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475847
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFE9-FF9F-FF69-FDE939FCF9FB
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Ptilotis sonora murchisoni Mathews
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Treatment

Ptilotis sonora murchisoni Mathews, 1912a: 405 (West Australia (East Murchison)).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694751 About AMNH , adult male, collected at ‘‘ Lake Way ,’’ East Murchison , Western Australia, Australia, on 3 July 1909, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3191) 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 ‘‘Mid Westralia.’’ There are six paratypes in AMNH, all collected by Whitlock: Borewell, East Murchison, AMNH 694749 About AMNH (Mathews no. 3195), male, AMNH 694650 About AMNH (3194), female, 11 August 1909 ; Lake Way , East Murchison, AMNH 694752 About AMNH (3192), male, AMNH 694753 About AMNH (3193), female, 16 July 1909 ; East Murchison , AMNH 694754 About AMNH (3916), male, 28 October 1909, AMNH 694755 About AMNH (3915), female, 4 November 1909 .

During the early days of July 1909, Whitlock (1910: 185–186) was collecting around Lake Violet, 26.39S, 120.16E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509), the name given to the northern part of the double lake, the southern part of which is known as Lake Way.