Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen

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Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen

Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen, 1966a: 6 (Margaret River, Kimberley Division, northern Western Australia).

Now Lichenostomus flavescens flavescens (Gould, 1840) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 253–254, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 608.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695517 , adult male, collected at Margaret River Crossing (5 Margaret River), 18.29S, 126.36E ( Storr, 1966: 61), Kimberley Division, Western Australia, Australia, on 20 April 1902, by J.T. Tunney (no. R435). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Margaret River .’’ There is one paratype: AMNH 695518 , male, collected on the Margaret River , 20 April 1902 by Tunney (no. R434). These two specimens had been in the Tunney collection reported on by Hartert (1905a: 234) and had been part of the Rothschild share of the collection ; they had not been in the Mathews Collection. See Storr (1966: 59– 65) for Tunney’s itinerary.