Ptilotis analoga mixta 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 : 77

Ptilotis analoga mixta Mathews

Ptilotis analoga mixta Mathews, 1912a: 403 (North Queensland (Johnston [sic] River)).

Now Meliphaga notata mixta (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 259–260, Christidis and Boles, 2008 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 589–590.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695989 , adult male, collected on the Johnstone (not Johnston) River, 17.31S, 146.03E ( Storr, 1984: 183), Queensland, Australia, by E. Olive, on 22 June 1900. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4247) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of the form as ‘‘ North Queensland.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Olive’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924:pl. 528, lower fig., opp. p. 430, text p. 430) where it is confirmed as the type of mixta. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 695998 (Mathews no. 3154), female, Cairns , 10 November 1904, apparently received on exchange from the Royal Scottish Museum in 1908 ; AMNH 696003 (5040), sex?, Kuranda, 13 May 1910, by the Dodds ; AMNH 696004 (3156), male, Cooktown, 31 May1898, by Olive. Other specimens either were not in Mathews’ Collection or were collected after the publication date of mixta on 31 January 1912. AMNH 695997 , collected on the Barron River in 1884 by T.H. Bowyer Bower was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913. One additional paratype that did not come to AMNH was cataloged by Mathews as no. 5041, collected on the Barron River on 7 June 1910 by the Dodds .