Ptilotis flavescens subgermana Mathews

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Ptilotis flavescens subgermana Mathews

Ptilotis flavescens subgermana Mathews, 1912a: 411 (North Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Lichenostomus fuscus subgermanus (Mathews, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 377, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 251–252, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 607–608.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695543 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in May 1905. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3283) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North Queensland.’’ The type bears a Mathews Collection label, on which the number ‘‘789’’ refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908), and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. AMNH 695544 (Mathews no. 9538), female, collected at Herberton on 5 November 1910 by the Dodds and cataloged by Mathews as P. germana is a paratype. Specimens collected by T.H. Bowyer-Bower at Cairns in 1885, were not cataloged by Mathews until 1913, after the publication of subgermana.