Ptilotis sonora westwoodia 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 : 81

Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews

Ptilotis sonora westwoodia Mathews, 1913d: 77 (Westwood, Queensland).

Now Lichenostomus virescens sonorus (Gould, 1841) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694911 , adult male, collected at Westwood , 23.37S, 150.09E ( USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in October 1881, by Carl Lumholtz. From the Mathews Collection (no. 11079) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews listed the type of westwoodia as a specimen collected at Westwood in October 1881 and gave no range. The holotype is the only specimen that Mathews had from Westwood and was from the collection mostly made by C. Lumholtz and K. Dahl that he obtained from R. Collett, ZMO. It bears Lumholtz’s original label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, and a Rothschild type label. Mathews’ catalog number is written on the Mathews label but was not cited in the original description.

Salomonsen (1967: 374) recognized westwoodia as a subspecies of Meliphaga virescens .