Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis 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 : 168

Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews

Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews, 1916a: 63 (Western District of Tasmania).

Now Anthochaera paradoxa paradoxa (Daudin, 1800) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 448, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 303, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 624.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696436 , sex?, Westbury (not Western) District, 41.03S, 146.47E (Times Atlas), Tasmania, Australia, obtained from R.H.W. Leach. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4359) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Only two of Mathews’ Tasmanian specimens of paradoxa bore exact localities from within that state, and he named each of them. In the case of westernensis , he misread the locality as ‘‘Western’’ rather than ‘‘Westbury.’’ Mathews wrote on the reverse of Leach’s label ‘‘ D. westernensis Mathews , Type.’’ The specimen had not previously been in the AMNH type collection. Mathews (1925a: 76) spoke of westernensis as valid at the top of the page, then named brevirostris as new on the same page and in the next sentence considered westernensis (named in 1916) a synonym of brevirostris (named in 1925)!