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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3689760" data-attributes="member: 24811">I won't post a full pdf here, as it is my understanding that the work (published 1923) is still under copyright. The new species-group names introduced in this paper are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Samuela cinnamomea todmordeni – “Type, Todmorden, Central Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Calamanthus fuliginosus obscurior – […] “much darker” [...]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magnamytis kimberleyi – “Type, Kimberley, North-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Colluricincla rufiventris carteri – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cracticus nigrogularis coongani – “Type, Coongan River, Mid-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aphelooephala pectoralis todmordeni – “Type, Todmorden, Central Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neositta albata ramsayi – “Differs from N. a. albata (Ramsay) in” [etc.]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cormobates minor northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, Barron River, North Queensland.”)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zosterops australasiae edwini – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zosterops lutea headlandi – “Type, Point Headland, North Mid-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pardalotinus melanocephalus pilbarra – “Type, Pilbarra Gold Fields, Mid-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nesopardalotus quadragintus rex – “Type, King Island, Bass Straits.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Melithreptus laetior northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, Western Northern Territory.”)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lichmera indistincta yorki – “Type, York, West Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lichmera indistincta perthi – “Type, Perth, West Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lichmera indistincta milligani – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sacramela keartlandi cloatesensis – “Type, Point Cloates, Mid-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ptilotula penicillata centralia – “Type, Central Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera mixta – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meliornis novaehollandiae queenslandicus – “Type, Queensland.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Coleia carunculata clelandi – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Coleia carunculata perthi – “Type, Perth, West Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anthochaera chrysoptera albani – “Type, Albany, South-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Acanthagenys rufogularis augusta – “Type, Port Augusta, South Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neophilemon orientalis confusus – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Austranthus australis flindersi – “Type, Flinders Island, Bass Straits.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zonaeginthus bellus flindersi – “Type, Flinders Island, Bass Straits.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zonaeginthus bellus tasmanicus – Type, Tasmania.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zonaeginthus bellus rosinae – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zonaeginthus boculatus gaimardi – “Differs from Z. o. oculatus (Q. and G.) ” [etc.]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Donacola castaneothorax northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, North Queensland.”)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aegintha temporalis ashbyi – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gouldaeornis gouldiae westra – “Type, Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neopoephila personata hilli – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ptiloris paradisea queenslandica – “Type, Blackall Ranges, South Queensland.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Corvus cecilae problëema – no obvious clue in OD.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Struthidea cimerea dalyi – “Type, Daly Waters, Northern Territory”.</li> </ul>(...With westra in mind, and given Mathews' habit to form names by adding a genitive -i ending to English-language toponyms, I feel obliged to note that the three taxa named northi in this list all have a stated type locality in northern Australia. Hopefully just a coincidence...? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> [OTOH, on p.43 of the same paper, Mathews conceded that his Acanthiza pusilla northi Mathews 1922 [<a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53495705" target="_blank">OD</a>], explicitly dedicated to AJ North, was a junior synonym of A. p. leeuwinensis Campbell 1922: this may conceivably have prompted him to propose other names honouring North. There might also be other untold reasons for this, of course.])</blockquote>

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