Lichmera indistincta perthi 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 : 52

Lichmera indistincta perthi Mathews

Lichmera indistincta perthi Mathews, 1923b: 37 (Perth, West Australia).

Now Lichmera indistincta indistincta (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 347, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 305–306, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 694220 , male, Perth , 31.57S, 115.52E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 512), Western Australia, Australia, on 8 September 1909, purchased from Roland Ward ; AMNH 694221 and 694222, two specimens bearing only Rothschild Collection labels printed ‘‘ Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’ ’ with the identity and ‘‘ Perth’ ’ filled in by Hartert ; AMNH 694223 , unsexed, collected at Perth (Claremont), in April 1906, Mathews no. 3118. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: This subspecies was one of a number of forms that Mathews rushed to name in his Austral Avian Record so that mention of them could be made in Mathews’ Birds of Australia (1924: 427), where he added a brief, confusing note (see above under yorki ). In the original description the type is said to be from Perth, and by 1923, this would include all of the Perth specimens in Mathews’ collection. None of these specimens has any indication of type status. Only one of them has a Mathews catalog number, but no. 3119 in the catalog is a dataless ‘‘Perth’’ specimen and may refer to one or both of the above specimens without date. Mathews may have also considered Ashby’s (1901: 134) specimen from Guilford, near Perth, to be part of his type series.