Ptilotis lewinii ivi 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 : 78

Ptilotis lewinii ivi Mathews

Ptilotis lewinii ivi Mathews, 1912a: 405 (Barron River, Queensland).

Now Meliphaga lewinii mab (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 257–258, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 589.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694711 , adult sex?, collected on the Barron River , on 7 June 1910, by the Dodds (no. 20). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5041) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description ; it bears, in addition to the Dodds original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Dodds lived at Kuranda, 16.49S, 145.39E ( USBGN, 1957), which is on the middle Barron River, and the type was probably collected near their home. Mathews noted the range as ‘‘ Queensland’ ’; therefore all of the Queensland specimens in Mathews’ collection when this form was described comprise his type series. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 694707 (Mathews no. 3170, also the holotype of mab, see above), AMNH 694708 (3171), adult male, collected on Mount Elliot by W. Stalker ; AMNH 694709 (3169), female, collected on Mount Elliot by Stalker ; AMNH 694712 (8039), sex?, collected on the Barron River on 30 July 1910 by the Dodds. A specimen collected at Gracemere in 1881 by C. Lumholtz was not acquired from R. Collett, ZMO, by Mathews (1912b: 25) until after the publication of ivi on 31 January 1912, and other Queensland specimens were not collected until after that date. The specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 5040, a Dodd specimen from Kuranda, 13 May 1910, did not come to AMNH and is a paratype, if found .