Ptilotis sonora walgetti 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 : 80

Ptilotis sonora walgetti Mathews

Ptilotis sonora walgetti Mathews, 1912a: 405 (New South Wales).

Now Lichenostomus virescens sonorus (Gould, 1841) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694813 , adult female, collected at Walgett , 30.03S, 148.10E (Times Atlas), New South Wales, Australia, in October 1908. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3200) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of walgetti as ‘‘ New South Wales.’’ The holotype bears Mathews Collection and type labels and a Rothschild type label; the number ‘‘772’’ on Mathews’ collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). In addition to the type, Mathews had two other New South Wales specimens, both from Walgett: paratypes, AMNH 694814 (Mathews no. 3199), female?, October 1908; and AMNH 694815 (3198), male, March 1906. A specimen collected by J.B. Cleland on 14 September 1911 was cataloged by Mathews on 27 February 1912 and is not a paratype. This specimen was cataloged between specimens from Melville Island collected by J.P. Rogers and specimens received from R. Collett, two collections that Mathews (1912b: 25–26) said had arrived after the publication of Mathews (1912a) in which walgetti was named.

Salomonsen (1967: 374) included virescens in the genus Meliphaga and considered walgetti a synonym of M. v. virescens .