Ptilotis chrysotis ethelae 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 : 88

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475873
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scientific name	Ptilotis chrysotis ethelae Mathews
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Ptilotis chrysotis ethelae Mathews, 1912a: 410 (South Australia (Port Augusta)).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695427 View Materials , adult male, collected on the western slopes of the Flinders Range , northeast of Port Augusta (as on original label), South Australia, Australia, on 10 October 1911, by S.A. White (no. 318). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9938) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of ethelae as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to White’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. As pointed out by Schodde and Mason (1999: 250), the western slopes of the Flinders Range are in an area of intergradation between L. p. plumulus and specimens from eastern South Australia, and they have used the name L. p. graingeri for the population extending across New South Wales and into Queensland (see below). Specimens in AMNH from the western Flinders Range confirm the intergradient character of the population, although the holotype is very similar to the holotype of graingeri. There are three paratypes in AMNH collected by White on the western slopes of the Flinders Range on 10 and 11 October 1911: male, AMNH 695428 View Materials (Mathews no. 9941, White no. 313) ; females, AMNH 695429 View Materials (9940, 328) ; AMNH 695431 View Materials (9939, 247). Possible paratypes of ethelae are AMNH 695434 View Materials , male, and AMNH 695435 View Materials , female, collected at Port Pirie , South Australia, on 24 July 1908, by Mellor, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into his possession. Other Mathews specimens of this species from South Australia were collected after the description of ethelae was published. There are also paratypes of ethelae in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .