Ptilotis fusca dawsoni 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 : 86

Ptilotis fusca dawsoni Mathews

Ptilotis fusca dawsoni Mathews, 1912a: 404 (Dawson River, Queensland).

Now intergradient between Lichenostomus fuscus fuscus and L. f. subgermanus. See Salomonsen, 1967: 377, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 251–252, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 607–608.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694590 [not 654590, as on label], adult female, collected at Coomooboolaroo , 23.53S. 149.34E ( USBGN, 1957), Dawson River , Queensland, Australia, on 29 August 1909. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4728) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of dawsoni as ‘‘ Queensland.’’ The holotype was described, but not figured, in Mathews (1924: 439), where it is confirmed as the type of dawsoni. His catalog shows that he obtained it from [H.G.] Barnard. Other specimens from Queensland in his catalog had been considered P. flavescens by Mathews. A second specimen from Coomooboolaroo was collected in August 1913, after the publication of dawsoni.