Ptilotis ornata tailemi 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

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475907
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFD9-FFAF-FF52-FAD03A81FBC6
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Ptilotis ornata tailemi Mathews
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Treatment

Ptilotis ornata tailemi Mathews, 1912a: 410 (Tailem Bend, South Australia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695373 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Tailem Bend , 35.17S, 139.27E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 1 November 1909, by F. Erasmus Howe (no. 706). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4555) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of the form as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ The holotype bears Howe’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following are paratypes: South Australia, Warunda Creek , Eyre Peninsula , males, AMNH 695363 About AMNH , 24 August 1911, AMNH 695364 About AMNH , 27 August 1911, AMNH 695365 About AMNH (Mathews no. 9662), 24 August 1911, AMNH 695366 About AMNH (9660), 27 August 1911, AMNH 695367 About AMNH (9300), 9 October 1909 ; sex?, AMNH 695368 About AMNH (9661), 5 September 1911 ; Tailem Bend , AMNH 695374 About AMNH (3262), female 26 September 1908, AMNH 695375 About AMNH (3261), sex?, 16 September 1908 ; Victoria, Underbool , males, AMNH 695381 About AMNH , 13 September 1910, AMNH 695382 About AMNH (6276) ; South Australia, northeast of Bow Hill , females, AMNH 695383 About AMNH (10132), 10 November 1911, AMNH 695384 About AMNH (10131), 10 November 1911 ; juvenile, AMNH 695385 About AMNH (10133), 10 November 1911 ; Victoria, Carina , female, AMNH 695386 About AMNH (3256), 26 September 1908 ; Ouyen, male, AMNH 695389 About AMNH (10101), 28 August 1911. Other specimens in AMNH were either not in Mathews’ hand until after the publication of tailemi on 31 January 1912 or were never in his collection. Most of the above specimens are also in the type series of P. o. underbooli (see below) .