Ptilotis chrysotis graingeri 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 : 89

Ptilotis chrysotis graingeri Mathews

Ptilotis chrysotis graingeri Mathews, 1912d: 99 (Mount Grainger, South Australia).

Now Lichenostomus plumulus graingeri (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 249–250, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 606–607.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695433 , female, collected on Mount Grainger , between Peterborough (5 Petersburg, as on label), 32.58S, 138.50E ( USBGN, 1957), South Australia, and Broken Hill , 31.57S, 141.26E ( USBGN, 1957), New South Wales, Australia, on 11 September 1911, from Edwin Ashby (no. 787). From the Mathews Collection (no. 11671) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘adjoining parts of New South Wales and South Australia.’’ The holotype bears in addition to the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a Mathews ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 539, top fig., opp. p. 537, text p. 538) where it is confirmed as the type of graingeri. I did not find other specimens that might be considered paratypes of graingeri.