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 View Materials , 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 View Materials , 24 August 1911, AMNH 695364 View Materials , 27 August 1911, AMNH 695365 View Materials (Mathews no. 9662), 24 August 1911, AMNH 695366 View Materials (9660), 27 August 1911, AMNH 695367 View Materials (9300), 9 October 1909 ; sex?, AMNH 695368 View Materials (9661), 5 September 1911 ; Tailem Bend , AMNH 695374 View Materials (3262), female 26 September 1908, AMNH 695375 View Materials (3261), sex?, 16 September 1908 ; Victoria, Underbool , males, AMNH 695381 View Materials , 13 September 1910, AMNH 695382 View Materials (6276) ; South Australia, northeast of Bow Hill , females, AMNH 695383 View Materials (10132), 10 November 1911, AMNH 695384 View Materials (10131), 10 November 1911 ; juvenile, AMNH 695385 View Materials (10133), 10 November 1911 ; Victoria, Carina , female, AMNH 695386 View Materials (3256), 26 September 1908 ; Ouyen, male, AMNH 695389 View Materials (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) .