Gliciphila modesta ramsayi 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 : 150

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476059
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FF2D-FF5B-FF6F-FF5338B2FBCD
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews
status

Treatment

Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews, 1912a: 400 (North Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Ramsayornis modestus (G.R. Gray, 1858) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 432, Ford, 1986: 102, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 318–319, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 627.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692251 View Materials , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in October 1908, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4566) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of ramsayi as ‘‘ North Queensland (Cairns).’’ The holotype bears the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 521, upper fig., opp. p. 366, text p. 366) where it is confirmed as the type of ramsayi. Paratypes are: Cairns , all collected in 1908, AMNH 692248 View Materials (Mathews no. 3103), August, AMNH 692249 View Materials (3102), August, AMNH 692250 View Materials (4565), October, males, AMNH 692252 View Materials (3104), August [probably male] ; AMNH 692253 View Materials (4567), October, AMNH 692254 View Materials (4568), October, AMNH 692255 View Materials (3105), August, females .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Meliphagidae
Genus	Gliciphila