Ptilotis cratitia samueli 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 : 92

Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews Ptilotis cratitia zarda Mathews

Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews, 1912d: 99 (Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia).

Ptilotis cratitia zarda Mathews, 1913b: 193 , nom. nov.

Now Lichenostomus cratitius occidentalis Cabanis, 1851 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 380, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 245–246, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 605.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695267 , adult male, collected on Warunda Creek , 34.26S, 135.38E ( USBGN, 1957), Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, on 24 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 29). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9657) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description of samueli, giving the range as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ Mathews (1912d: 99) introduced two new taxa as samueli within the same genus and on the same page. He later realized his error and introduced zarda as a replacement name for Ptilotis cratitia samueli ; the two names share the same type. There are four paratypes in AMNH, all from Eyre Peninsula: AMNH 695264 (Mathews no. 9658), male, 8 September 1911 ; AMNH 695265 (9481), female, July 1911, AMNH 695266 (9659), female, 8 September 1911, all from Arno Bay ; AMNH 695268 (9480), male?, June 1911. There are also paratypes in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .

Salomonsen (1967: 380) considered this form a synonym of Meliphaga cratitia cratitia . See Schodde and Mason (1999: 246) concerning the use of occidentalis for mainland populations of Lichenstomus cratitius .