Ptilotis ornata underbooli 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 : 99

Ptilotis ornata underbooli Mathews

Ptilotis ornata underbooli Mathews, 1913c: 68 (Underbool, Victoria).

Now Lichenostomus ornatus (Gould, 1838) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 383, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 248, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695382 , female, collected at Underbool , 35.10S, 141.49E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 12 September 1910, by F. Erasmus Howe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6276) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of underbooli as ‘‘Mallee country of Victoria and South Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Howe’s label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 538, middle figure, opp. p. 524, text p. 531), where it is confirmed as the type of underbooli. In the original description, Mathews said that the type was collected by T. Tregellas ; however, in his catalog he attributed the specimen to F.E. Howe and the handwriting on the label matches Howe’s and is completely unlike the carefully hand-printed labels of Tregellas. The mallee specimens that were the holotype and paratypes of tailemi (above) are also paratypes of underbooli: AMNH 695373–695375 , 695381 , 695383–695386 , 695389 . An additional two specimens, both collected by Tregellas, are paratypes of underbooli, having been received by Mathews after tailemi was published but before underbooli: AMNH 695387 (Mathews no. 15261), female, collected at Daytrap , Victoria, on 9 September 1912 ; AMNH 695388 (15262), male, Gerahmin , Victoria, on 10 September 1912 .