Ptilotis leucotis munna 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 : 100

Ptilotis leucotis munna Mathews Ptilotis leucotis thomasi Mathews

Ptilotis leucotis munna Mathews, 1912b: 50 (Kangaroo Island, South Australia).

Ptilotis leucotis thomasi Mathews, 1912d: 99 (new name for P. l. munna, preoccupied).

Now Lichenostomus leucotis thomasi (Mathews, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 384, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 240–241, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 602– 603.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695078 , female, collected at Middle River , 35.41S, 137.03E ( USBGN, 1957), Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, on 2 December 1911, by S.A. White (no. 444). From the Mathews Collection (no. 10212) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In his original description of P. leucotis munna, Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype and gave the range of the form as ‘‘Kangaroo Island.’’ Mathews (1912d: 99) provided the new name P. l. thomasi, munna being preoccupied by his name Ptilotis ornata munna Mathews (1912a: 410) . Paratypes are additional specimens from Kangaroo Island in Mathews’ collection that were cataloged by him before the publication date of munna on 2 April 1912: AMNH 695075 (Mathews no. 3229), immature, near Hog Bay, 30 December 1897; AMNH 695079 (10213), male, Starvation Creek, 4 December 1911, by White (no. 399); AMNH 695080 (10214), male, Waterfall Creek, 8 December 1911, by White (no. 398); AMNH 695081 (10361), immature male, Waterfall Creek, 4 December 1911, by White (443). Other specimens were collected by White in 1912, after the publication of munna. AMNH 695075, 695079, and 695080 were marked ‘‘prob. female. J. Ford.’’