Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews

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Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews

Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews, 1912a: 400 (North Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Ramsayornis modestus (G.R. Gray, 1858) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 432, Ford, 1986: 102, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 318–319, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 627.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692251 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in October 1908, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4566) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of ramsayi as ‘‘ North Queensland (Cairns).’’ The holotype bears the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 521, upper fig., opp. p. 366, text p. 366) where it is confirmed as the type of ramsayi. Paratypes are: Cairns , all collected in 1908, AMNH 692248 (Mathews no. 3103), August, AMNH 692249 (3102), August, AMNH 692250 (4565), October, males, AMNH 692252 (3104), August [probably male] ; AMNH 692253 (4567), October, AMNH 692254 (4568), October, AMNH 692255 (3105), August, females .