Ptilotis penicillata calconi 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 : 97

Ptilotis penicillata calconi Mathews

Ptilotis penicillata calconi Mathews, 1912a: 413 (Mungi, North-West Australia).

Now Lichenostomus penicillatus calconi (Mathews, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 382, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 255–256, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 608–609.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695673 , adult male, collected at Mungi Rockhole , 18.45S, 123.44E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 1 July 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1847). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9212) 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 ‘‘ Interior of North-West Australia.’’ Paratypes, all collected by Rogers in 1911, are: 14 miles northwest of Mount Alexander, AMNH 695667 (Mathews no. 9210), AMNH 695668 (9209), AMNH 695669 (9208), AMNH 695670 (9211), AMNH 695671 (9207), AMNH 695672 (9213), two males and four females, 11–12 June ; Jurgurra Creek (5 Jegurra Creek, as on label), AMNH 695674 , AMNH 695675 , males, 8 July. AMNH 695668 is labeled ‘‘Figured’’ and was the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 540, top fig., opp. p. 548, text p. 550) but was not said to be a type .