Meliornis novaehollandiae subsp. assimilis Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Meliornis

description: <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis</i> Mathews <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae assimilis</i> Mathews, 1912a: 415 (Victoria). Now <i>Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae</i> (Latham, 1790). See Salomonsen, 1967: 427, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 692179</b>, adult male, collected at Olinda, 37.51S, 145.22E (USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 17 April 1911, by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9062) 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 ‘‘ Victoria.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Tregellas’ label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a label marked ‘‘Figured’’ in Mathews’ hand, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1925a: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 16), where it is confirmed as the type of <i>assimilis</i>. The following specimens are paratypes of <i>assimilis</i>: Frankston, <b>AMNH 692165</b> (Mathews no. 3322), male, 25 September 1908; Olinda, <b>AMNH 692166</b> (9064), male, 17 April 1911; <b>AMNH 692168</b> (10104), female, 8 July 1911; <b>AMNH 692169</b> (10108), male, 14 October 1911; <b>AMNH 692172</b> (10107), male, 10 September 1911; <b>AMNH 692175</b> (9065), male, 13 May 1911; <b>AMNH 692178</b> (10106), male (cataloged as a female), 8 July 1911; <b>AMNH 692180</b> (4971), female, 7 June 1909; <b>AMNH 692181</b> (9063), female, 13 May 1911; <b>AMNH 692183</b> (10105), female, 8 July 1911; <b>AMNH 692185</b> (5055), sex?, 3 June 1907; <b>AMNH 692186</b> (5056), sex?, 6 June 1908; Aspendale Park, <b>AMNH 692190</b> (3319), female, 15 July 1906. The following specimens were collected before <i>assimilis</i> was published on 31 January 1912, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog; they are possible paratypes: Olinda, AMNH 692176, male, 30 January 1909; AMNH 692177, male, 14 July 1901; AMNH 692182, female, 15 August 1908; Bayswater, AMNH 692187, male, 4 May 1907.
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 pages 141-142
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