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Philemon buceroides subsp. yorki Mathews 1912

Creators

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Philemon buceroides yorki Mathews

Philemon buceroides yorki Mathews, 1912d: 102 (Cape York, Queensland).

Now Philemon buceroides yorki Mathews, 1912. See Salomonsen, 1967: 410, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680– 681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697065, adult male, collected at Utingu, Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 13 May 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 867). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12897) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of yorki as ‘‘Cape York.’’ The specimen bears Kemp’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that this specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 555, lower fig. labeled Neophilemon yorki, opp. p. 103, text p. 104), where it is confirmed as the type of yorki. The type also bears a tag annotated by Mathews: ‘‘To Gron old, Note bare skin, low down on neck;’’ this is undoubtedly a note to the artist, H. Grönvold. Only specimens collected by Kemp on Cape York in April and May 1912 were cataloged by Mathews before the publication of yorki on 18 September 1912. These four specimens are paratypes: AMNH 697066 (Mathews no. 13209), male, Utingu, 23 May; AMNH 697079 (12758), female, Thursday Island (but cataloged as Cape York), 30 April; AMNH 697080 (12898), female, Utingu, 10 May; AMNH 697081 (13210), female, Utingu, 23 May. See below for a discussion of the complicated nomenclature of the Australian forms of P. buceroides.

Utingu was a coconut plantation opposite Possession Island (Jack, 1921: 342), 10.43S, 142.24E (USBGN, 1957).

Notes

Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on pages 125-126

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1912-05-13
Family
Meliphagidae
Genus
Philemon
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 697065
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Species
yorki
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1912-05-13
Taxonomic concept label
Philemon buceroides subsp. yorki Mathews, 1912 sec. Mary, 2011

References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 d. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 81 - 104.
  • Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.
  • Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1925 a. The birds of Australia. Vol. 12, pts. 1 - 5. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1 - 225, pls. 542 - 570.
  • Jack, R. L. 1921. Northmost Australia. Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. 2 vols. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 768 pp.