Ptilotis chrysops barroni 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 : 90

Ptilotis chrysops barroni Mathews

Ptilotis chrysops barroni Mathews, 1912a: 406 (North Queensland, Cairns).

Now Lichenostomus chrysops barroni (Mathews, 1912) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 232–233, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 597–598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694630 , unsexed, collected on the Barron River , Queensland, Australia, on 5 August 1910, by the Dodds. From the Mathews Collection (no. 8985) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North Queensland.’’ The following specimens, all collected by the Dodds, are paratypes: Herberton, AMNH 694615 (Mathews no. 9536), female, 22 January 1911 ; Barron River , male, AMNH 694624 (no. not found), 31 August 1910 ; unsexed, AMNH 694626 (8986), 1 September 1910 ; AMNH 694627 (8042), 6 August 1910 ; AMNH 694628 (9325), 9 July 1910 ; AMNH 694629 (8041), 4 July 1910. Although Mathews listed the type locality as Cairns, these specimens probably came from the Barron River in the vicinity of Kuranda , 16.46S, 145.37E ( Times Atlas ), where the Dodds lived, and where there is higher altitude habitat for this species .

Salomonsen (1967: 379) considered both barroni and beaconsfieldi synonyms of Meliphaga c. chrysops ; Higgins et al. (2008: 597) considered barroni poorly differentiated.