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Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa
Rand
Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa
Rand, 1941: 15
(6 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, at 1200 meters, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New
Guinea
).
Now
Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa
Rand, 1941
.
See
Dickinson, 2003: 451
, and
Gregory, 2008: 335–336
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 305910
, adult male, collected
6 km
southwest of
Bernhard Camp
,
1200 m
, ca.
03.30S
,
139.15E
(
Archbold et al., 1942
: map 1),
Taritatu
(
5
Idenburg)
River
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
27 February 1939
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
W.B. Richardson
on the 1938–1939
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 9715).
COMMENTS:
The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Four
males and
one female
were measured
;
however,
10 specimens
were cataloged and would have been available to
Rand
for the description of
umbrosa
.
The
nine paratypes
, all collected at the same locality,
18–28 February 1939
, are:
AMNH 343188
(
Archbold
no. 9571), immature male,
AMNH 343189
(9604), male,
AMNH 343190
(9713), male,
AMNH 343191
(9714), male,
AMNH 343192
(9749), immature male
;
AMNH 343193
(9590), female,
AMNH 343194
(9716), female,
AMNH 343195
(9717), female
;
and
AMNH 343196
(–), male.
AMNH 343189
was sent to
MZB
in
May 1957
.
Rand
(1942b: 511–512)
, in his report on the entire bird collection from this expedition, listed
four adult
males,
three immature
males, and
one adult
female. I cannot explain the discrepancy
; the above information is taken from the specimen labels.
Archbold et al. (1942)
published a summary of this 1938–1939 expedition; it was a joint expedition with
the Netherlands
East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie.