Ptilotula flavescens zanda 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 : 87

Ptilotula flavescens zanda Mathews

Ptilotula flavescens zanda Mathews, 1913d: 77 (Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria).

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 695539 , adult female, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 9 October 1913, by Robin Kemp (no. 3288). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18235) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave Kemp as the collector and 9 October 1913 as the date of collection of the holotype. No other specimen of flavescens in the Mathews Collection has those data. The holotype bears, in addition to Kemp’s original label and a Rothschild type label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews and with the number 788, which refers to this species in Mathews (1908). No range was mentioned; accordingly, paratypes would be other Normanton specimens cataloged before the publication of zanda on 29 December 1913. Only one specimen is definitely a paratype: AMNH 695540 (Mathews no. 18234), female, collected on 8 October 1913 and cataloged on 16 December 1913, at the same time as the holotype. Three additional specimens were cataloged on 5 January 1914 and it is perhaps possible that they also should be considered paratypes: AMNH 695519 (18398), male, 11 October 1913 ; AMNH 695537 (18396), female?, 11 October 1913 ; AMNH 695538 (18397), female?, 10 October 1913 .