Ailuroedus melanotus
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Ailuroedus melanotus [sic] fairfaxi Mathews
Ailuroedus melanotus [sic] fairfaxi Mathews, 1915a: 132 (Bellenden Ker, Queensland).
Now Ailuroedus melanotis maculosus Ramsay, 1874. See Mathews, 1926: 318–320; Hartert, 1929a: 55; Mathews, 1930: 892–893; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 3; Mayr, 1962c: 174; Gilliard, 1969: 266–273; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 622– 624; Dickinson, 2003: 427; Frith and Frith, 2004: 235–238; Christidis and Boles, 2008: 179– 180; and Frith and Frith, 2009a: 393–394.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 679659, adult male, collected on Bellenden Ker, 17.16S, 145.51E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 16 November 1899, by E. Olive (no. R588). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18162) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: When Mathews described this form, he noted only that the type was from Bellenden Ker. Mathews had nine specimens from Bellenden Ker, cataloged as numbers 18157–18165. AMNH 679659 bears, in addition to Olive’s label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels with the number 18162 written on them but not cited in the original description. Hartert (1929a: 55) listed the unique specimen collected on 16 November 1899 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The eight paralectotypes are AMNH 679660, 679661, 679663–679668, five males, three females, collected by Olive on Bellenden Ker between 22 November 1899 and 19 February 1900. Each bears Olive’s unique field number, and the number ‘‘1550’’ that appears on each label may be a lot number of the skins purchased by Mathews. Both Mathews and Rothschild purchased parts of the Olive collection, and AMNH 679662 is a Rothschild specimen from Bellenden Ker that was never in the Mathews Collection; it does not include the number ‘‘1550’’ on its Olive label.
Robinson and Laverock (1900) published on Olive’s collection, and on pages 623–624 reported that Olive collected many specimens of maculosus. By 1930, Mathews (1930: 892– 893) himself considered fairfaxi a synonym of maculosus. See the discussion regarding species limits under A. crassirostris, above.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USBGN
- Event date
- 1899-11-16
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Ailuroedus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 679659
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Species
- melanotus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1899-11-16
References
- Mathews, G. M. 1915 a. Additions and corrections to my list of the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 2 (7): 123 - 133.
- Mathews, G. M. 1926. The birds of Australia, 12 (6 - 9): 226 - 406, pls. 571 - 595. London: H. F. & G. Witherby.
- Hartert, E. 1929 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. D. Gregory M. Mathews' types of Australian birds. I. Novitates Zoologicae 35: 42 - 58.
- Mathews, G. M. 1930. Systema avium australasianarum. London: British Ornithologists' Union, pt. 2, pp. 427 - 1048.
- Mayr, E., and K. Jennings. 1952. Geographic variation and plumages in Australian bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae). American Museum Novitates 1602: 1 - 18.
- Mayr, E. 1962 c. Family Ptilonorhynchidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 172 - 181. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
- Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2004. The bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiii + 508 pp, 8 pls., maps, photographs.
- Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 a. Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds). Species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 393 - 403. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Robinson, H. C., and W. S. Laverock. 1900. The birds of north Queensland. - Part 1. On two collections from Cooktown and the neighbourhood of Cairns. Ibis (7) 6: 617 - 653.