Ptilotis ornata subsp. tailemi Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Ptilotis

description: <i>Ptilotis ornata tailemi</i> Mathews <i>Ptilotis ornata tailemi</i> Mathews, 1912a: 410 (Tailem Bend, South Australia). Now <i>Lichenostomus ornatus</i> (Gould, 1838). See Salomonsen, 1967: 383, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 248, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 606. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 695373</b>, adult male, collected at Tailem Bend, 35.17S, 139.27E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 1 November 1909, by F. Erasmus Howe (no. 706). From the Mathews Collection (no. 4555) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of the form as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ The holotype bears Howe’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following are paratypes: South Australia, Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula, males, <b>AMNH 695363</b>, 24 August 1911, <b>AMNH 695364</b>, 27 August 1911, <b>AMNH 695365</b> (Mathews no. 9662), 24 August 1911, <b>AMNH 695366</b> (9660), 27 August 1911, <b>AMNH 695367</b> (9300), 9 October 1909; sex?, <b>AMNH 695368</b> (9661), 5 September 1911; Tailem Bend, <b>AMNH 695374</b> (3262), female 26 September 1908, <b>AMNH 695375</b> (3261), sex?, 16 September 1908; Victoria, Underbool, males, <b>AMNH 695381</b>, 13 September 1910, <b>AMNH 695382</b> (6276); South Australia, northeast of Bow Hill, females, <b>AMNH 695383</b> (10132), 10 November 1911, <b>AMNH 695384</b> (10131), 10 November 1911; juvenile, <b>AMNH 695385</b> (10133), 10 November 1911; Victoria, Carina, female, <b>AMNH 695386</b> (3256), 26 September 1908; Ouyen, male, <b>AMNH 695389</b> (10101), 28 August 1911. Other specimens in AMNH were either not in Mathews’ hand until after the publication of <i>tailemi</i> on 31 January 1912 or were never in his collection. Most of the above specimens are also in the type series of <i>P. o. underbooli</i> (see below).
description: Published as part of <i>Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348)</i> on page 98
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