Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Microeca leucops auricularis
Mayr and Rand
Microeca leucops auricularis
Mayr and Rand, 1935: 7
(Wuroi, Oriomo
River
, Territory of
Papua
).
Now
Tregellasia leucops auricularis
(
Mayr and Rand, 1935
)
. See
Coates, 1990: 194–196
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 422051
, adult male, collected at
Wuroi
,
08.50S
,
143.07E
(
Deignan, 1964: 234
),
Oriomo River
,
Western Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
23 January 1934
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand
on the 1933–1934
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 2542).
COMMENTS
: A single specimen was collected. Wuroi, ca.
65 km
from the mouth of the Oriomo River (
08.45S
,
143.00E
,
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
), was the landing place for Dogwa,
9 km
to the west (
Archbold and Rand, 1935: 576–577
). For additional information on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see
Mayr and Rand (1937)
and
Archbold and Rand (1935)
.