Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis
Hartert
Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis
Hartert, 1930b: 59
(Wondiwoi)
.
Now
Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis
Hartert, 1930
.
See
Dickinson, 2003: 490
,
Boles, 2007: 435
, and
Dumbacher et al., 2008
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 656570
, adult female, collected in the
Wondiwoi Mountains
, inland from
Wasior
,
02.38S
,
134.27E
(Times Atlas), on the peninsula that juts out to the east of
Wandamen Bay
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
9 July 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 1410).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description. He had one additional specimen,
paratype
AMNH 294178
, adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains on
14 July 1928
by Ernst Mayr (no. 1511). Mayr’s expedition was sponsored jointly by Walter Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH. The
paratype
came directly to AMNH and the
holotype
came in 1932 with the purchase of the Rothschild Collection.
See
Mayr (1930: 24)
for an account of his collecting in the Wondiwoi Mountains.