Meliornis nigra inexpectata 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 : 145

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476045
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scientific name	Meliornis nigra inexpectata Mathews
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Meliornis nigra inexpectata Mathews, 1912a: 416 (West Australia (Stirling Ranges)).

Now Phylidonyris niger gouldii (Schlegel, 1872) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 429, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 313–314, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 668–669.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692233 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Mount Donelly , 34.20S, 117.43E ( USBGN, 1957), Stirling Range, Western Australia, Australia, on 14 October 1910, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6143) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as the ‘‘ Stirling Range.’’ The type bears Whitlock’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 26) where it is confirmed as the type of inexpectata . There are four paratypes in AMNH: Lake Balicup , 12 September 1910, AMNH 692231 About AMNH (Mathews no. 6146), male, AMNH 692232 About AMNH (6147), female ; Mount Donelly , 14 October 1910, AMNH 692234 About AMNH (6144), female ; Stirling Range , 4 September 1910, AMNH 692236 About AMNH (6145), male. AMNH 692235 About AMNH , collected by Whitlock in the Stirling Range on 26 Oct. 1911, was not cataloged by Mathews until the end of February 1912 [as dulciae (sic)], after the 31 January 1912 publication date of inexpectata and is not considered a paratype .