Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae
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LeCroy, Mary
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Munia caniceps kumusii
Hartert
Munia caniceps kumusii
Hartert, 1911: 47
(Kumusi River, north coast of British New
Guinea
).
Now
Lonchura caniceps kumusii
(
Hartert, 1911
)
. See
Hartert, 1919a: 143
;
Mayr et al., 1968: 383
;
Coates, 1990: 339–340
;
Dickinson, 2003: 736
; and
Payne, 2010: 376
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 721282
, adult male, collected on the
Kumusi River
,
08.30S
,
148.10E
(
PNG
General Reference Map
,
1984),
Oro Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
5 August 1907
, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3372). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Meek’s field number of the
holotype
and said that he examined
10 specimens
(apparently in addition to the
holotype
). The
10 paratypes
are: Kumusi
River
,
AMNH 721283–721292
, six males, four females, 1 and
5 June and 24 July 1907
, by Albert S. Meek.
This species was not included when
Rothschild and Hartert (1912)
reported on Meek’s Kumusi
River
expedition.