Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews

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Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews

Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews, 1912a: 412 (Queensland (Inkerman)).

Now Lichenostomus flavus addendus (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 239, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 602.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695703 , adult male, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in September 1907, by Wilfred (not William) Stalker. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3284) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Queensland (Inkerman).’’ The holotype bears Stalker’s original label (the number ‘‘790’’ on this label refers to the number of the species in Mathews, 1908) and a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. The type series comprised the three specimens collected by Stalker at Inkerman and reported on by Ingram (1908: 477). The two paratypes are: AMNH 695702 (Mathews no. 3285), adult male, collected on 9 October 1907 (misread as 3 October by Ingram); AMNH 695704 (3286), female, collected on 2 April 1907.

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 234) for a summary of use of the generic name Lichenostomus . Salomonsen (1967: 373) included flava in the genus Meliphaga .