Ptilotis ornata wesleydalei 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 : 98

Ptilotis ornata wesleydalei Mathews

Ptilotis ornata wesleydalei Mathews, 1913c: 68 (Broome Hill, South-west Australia).

Now Lichenostomus ornatus (Gould, 1838) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 383, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 248, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695336 , adult male, collected at Broomehill , 33.51S, 117.38E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 504), Western Australia, Australia, on 16 June 1908, by Thomas Carter. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3260) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of wesleydalei as ‘‘Inland districts of South-west Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Carter’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 538, lower fig., opp. p. 524, text p. 531) where it is confirmed as the type of wesleydalei. Paratypes, all collected at Broomehill by Carter, are: AMNH 695335 (Mathews no. 3258), male, 16 October 1905 ; AMNH 695337 (3259), male, 17 September 1906 ; AMNH 695344 , female, 17 September 1906. Two additional specimens may be paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 695333 , male, 6 August 1910 ; AMNH 695334 , male, 27 May 1910. Mathews often did not catalog specimens he received from Carter, perhaps because he received them frequently, a few at a time. Other specimens in AMNH from inland southwest Australia had never been in Mathews’ collection .