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.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
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journal article
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Aethomyias spilodera granti
Hartert
Aethomyias spilodera granti
Hartert, 1930b: 85
(Snow Mountains,
2,000 feet
).
Now
Sericornis spilodera granti
(Hartert, 1930)
. See
Mayr, 1986b: 423
, and
Dickinson, 2003: 445
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 601569
, adult male, collected in the
Pegunungan Maoke
(
5
Snow Mountains
),
2000 ft
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
25 August 1910
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 4636).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description. While the collecting locality on the label is ‘‘Snow Mountains’’,
Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473)
said that Meek’s collection was made on the Setekwa
River
,
04.54S
,
137.19E
(USBGN, 1982a), a tributary of the Oetakwa (
5
Utakwa)
River
. Although Hartert did not indicate how many specimens he had, according to
Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 501
, under
Aethomyias spilodera guttata
), the type series comprised
four adult
and
one juvenile
male specimen, for which they gave Meek’s field numbers. The
four paratypes
are: AMNH 601568 (Meek no. 4635), immature male; AMNH 601570 (4633) and 601571 (4617), males; and AMNH 601573 (4634), female (not male). AMNH 601572 (4576), young male, which was only identified as
Sericornis
? in
Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 504)
, is not considered a
paratype
.