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Ptilotis chrysotis subsp. saturatior Rothschild and Hartert

Creators

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

Description

Ptilotis chrysotis saturatior Rothschild and Hartert

Ptilotis chrysotis saturatior Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 445 (Wanambei, Kobroor).

Now Xanthotis flaviventer saturatior (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227–228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696101, adult male, collected on the Manambei Channel (5 Wanambei 5 Sg [Sungai] Wanoembai, as on label), 05.57S, 134.34E (USBGN, 1982a), Kobroor Island, Aru Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 1 September 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2425). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Kühn’s number of the holotype in the original description and listed the nine specimens in their type series. The eight paratypes are: Trangan Island, AMNH 696098, male, 16 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 260); Sungai Bark, AMNH 696099, female, 26 August 1900, by Kühn (no. 2428); Sg. Wanoembai, AMNH 696100, female, 2 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 2426), AMNH 696102, sex?, 22 June 1896, by Caley Webster (no. 193), from spirits; Wokan Island, AMNH 696103, male, 4 October 1900, by Kühn (no. 200), AMNH 696104, male, by Beccari (from spirits), AMNH 696105, sex?, by Beccari (from spirits), AMNH 696106, female, 26 September 1900, by Kühn (no. 201).

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 page 104

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References

  • Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1903 b. Notes on Papuan birds. XXVI. Meliphagidae. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 435 - 451.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 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.