Coleia carunculata clelandi 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 : 167

Coleia carunculata clelandi Mathews

Coleia carunculata clelandi Mathews, 1923b: 38 (Kangaroo Island).

Now Anthochaera carunculata clelandi (Mathews, 1923) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 447, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 301–302, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 623– 624.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 696380, immature male, collected at Western River, 35.42S, 136.58E (USBGN, 1957), on 4 December 1911, and AMNH 696381, adult male, collected at Middle River, 35.41S, 137.03E (USBGN, 1957), on 5 December 1911, both on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, by S.A. White (nos. 387 and 386, respectively). From the Mathews Collection (nos. 10180 and 10181, respectively) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that clelandi from Kangaroo Island differed from ‘‘ C.c. carunculata (White) in being larger in its measurements and in having the white patch under the eye less pronounced.’’ Mathews (1925a: 69) cited the following statement by A.G. Campbell (1906: 144): ‘‘One specimen examined has a bill 1.2 in. long, wing 6.4 in., both of which are larger than the mainland form, while it is without the prominent silky-white patch under the eye.’’ It appears that Mathews based his description of clelandi on this statement and that Campbell’s single specimen should be considered part of Mathews’ type series. This specimen is in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.). The two Kangaroo Island specimens listed above were certainly in the Mathews Collection when clelandi was named and should also be considered syntypes; there is some evidence that the Mathews Collection was already in Rothschild’s possession by 1923, but he would have had access to it ( Mathews 1942: 55).