Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix 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 : 77

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475833
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scientific name	Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews
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Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews View in CoL

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews, 1912a: 403 View in CoL (North Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Meliphaga gracilis imitatrix (Mathews, 1912) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 261–262, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695868 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in October 1909, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3157) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of imitatrix as ‘‘ North Queensland.’’ In addition to the Mathews Collection label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 528, upper fig., opp. p. 430, text p. 434) where it is confirmed as the type of imitatrix. The following specimens were in the Mathews Collection before imitatrix was published on 31 January 1912 and are paratypes: AMNH 695859 About AMNH , female, Johnstone River on 22 June 1900, by E. Olive ; AMNH 695865 About AMNH (Mathews’ no. 9537), female, Barron River , 26 July 1910, by the Dodds ; AMNH 695869 About AMNH (3158), female, Cairns, July 1908, by P. Schraeder. AMNH 695867 About AMNH (10285), sex?, Barron River, 26 July 1910, by the Dodds, was perhaps in Mathews’ hands when the name was published, but it was not cataloged until 13 February 1912. I have considered AMNH 695859 About AMNH a paratype, although I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog ; Mathews purchased Olive’s collection from Robinson and cataloged it in 1910. AMNH 695870 About AMNH , collected at Cairns in 1888 by T.H. Bowyer Bower was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913. Other specimens of this form now in AMNH, either were never in Mathews’ Collection or were collected after the date of publication of the name .