Ptilotis penicillata whitei 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 : 95

Ptilotis penicillata whitei Mathews

Ptilotis penicillata whitei Mathews, 1912a: 412 (South Australia (Murray Flats)).

Now Lichenostomus penicillatus penicillatus (Gould, 1837) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 381, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 255–256, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 608–609.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695602 , adult male, collected on Murray Flats , 14 miles west of Blanchetown, 34.21S, 139.38E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 30 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland. From the Mathews Collection (no. 8945) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ In addition to Cleland’s original label, the holotype also bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels. This is probably the specimen reported by Cleland (1912: 17). The following specimens from South Australia were cataloged by Mathews prior to publication of the name on 31 January 1912 and are paratypes: AMNH 695594 (Mathews no. 9943), male, A. Gum Creek, Flinders Range, northeast of Port Augusta , 10 October 1911, by S.A. White (no. 336) ; AMNH 695595 (9942), male, Flinders Range, northeast of Port Augusta , 10 October 1911, by S.A. White (no. 248) ; AMNH 695596 (3295), unsexed, Adelaide , July 1902 ; AMNH 695597 (9704), male immature, Mount Lofty Range, east of Adelaide , 12 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 96) ; AMNH 695598 (9705), male immature, Mount Lofty Range, east of Adelaide , 12 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 51) ; AMNH 695599 (9703), female, Mount Lofty Range, east of Adelaide , 12 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 142) ; AMNH 695604 (9478), male, Fulham , South Australia, January 1911, by Mellor ; AMNH 695608 (9479), female, Fulham, January 1911, by Mellor. AMNH 695594 and 695595 are also, respectively, the paratype and holotype of P. p. rosinae (see below). AMNH 695605 , 695606 , and 695607 were collected at Fulham by Mellor in July 1910, but were not cataloged by Mathews until 24 February 1912, and were then incorrectly attributed to Whitlock in Mathews’ catalog ; I do not consider them paratypes. AMNH 695609 was collected at Golden Grove , South Australia, on 9 June 1900 by Ashby, but I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog. Other specimens in AMNH were collected after the publication of whitei . There are also paratypes of this form in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .