Myzomela sanguinolenta stephensi Mathews

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Myzomela sanguinolenta stephensi Mathews

Myzomela sanguinolenta stephensi Mathews, 1912a: 395 (North Queensland (Cooktown)).

Now Myzomela sanguinolenta sanguinolenta Latham, 1801 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 359, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 333–334, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 642.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692865 , adult male, collected at Cooktown , 15.28S, 145.19E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 16 May 1900, by E.A.C. Olive (no. 172). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5912) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; it bears Olive’s original label and Mathews’ collection, type and ‘‘Figured’’ labels, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 515, opp. p. 305, text p. 306), where the described and figured adult male is confirmed as the type of stephensi. An AMNH type label has been added. The following birds were in Mathews’ possession

when stephensi was named and are considered paratypes: collected by W. Stalker, Beach Mount , males, AMNH 692836 (Mathews no. 3016), AMNH 692837 (3018), AMNH 692838 (3017) ; unsexed, AMNH 692839 (3020) ; Mount Elliot , immatures, AMNH 692840 (3019), AMNH 692841 (3021). Collected by the Dodds, Barron River, males, AMNH 692842 (8035), AMNH 692843 (8980) ; Kuranda, male, AMNH 692859 (no. not found) ; collected by Olive, Cooktown, males, AMNH 692864 (no. not found), AMNH 692866 (5913), AMNH 692867 (no. not found) ; male?, AMNH 692868 (5911, entered as female) ; females, AMNH 692869 (5909), AMNH 692870 (5910). Two specimens collected by T.H. Bowyer Bower at Cairns in 1885 were not cataloged by Mathews until 1913, after the publication of stephensi and are not paratypes .

Olive’s name does not appear on the labels of the Cooktown specimens; however, Olive collected for H.C. Robinson, from whom Mathews undoubtedly purchased this collection. Mathews (1942: 53) noted that he bought Olive’s bird skins ‘‘at a sale in London,’’ and in his catalog he noted that the specimens came from ‘‘Robinson.’’ Robinson and Laverock (1900) reported on Olive’s two collections from Cooktown and Cairns.

Schodde and Mason (1999: 334) recognized the single subspecies M. s. sanguinolenta in Australia; whereas, Higgins et al. (2008: 642) considered M. sanguinolenta monotypic. For use of Latham, 1801, see Schodde et al. (2010).