Ptilotis lewinii mab 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 : 77-78

Ptilotis lewinii mab Mathews

Ptilotis lewinii mab Mathews, 1912a: 404 (Queensland) .

Now Meliphaga lewinii mab (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 257–258, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 589.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694707 , adult male, collected at Inkerman , 19.45S, 147.29E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 18 March 1907, by Wilfred Stalker (no. 317). From the Mathews Collection (3170) 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).’’ I suppose that Mathews transposed the type locality and the range, but technically the type series comprises Mathews’ single specimen from Inkerman. The holotype bears, in addition to Stalker’s original label, a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. It is also a paratype of ivi, see below.

Salomonsen (1967: 372) synonymized mab with nominate lewinii , but Schodde and Mason (1999: 258) recognized mab and, as first revisers, selected it over ivi as the name for the northeast Queensland form.

Stalker collected at Inkerman Station for Sir William Ingram, the collection reported on by his son, Collingwood Ingram (1908), and later acquired by Mathews. Ingram (1908: 460) reported that Inkerman Station was approximately 50 miles southwest of Townsville and about 10 miles from the banks of the Burdekin River.