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
2008
2008-07-02
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Megalurus timoriensis muscalis
Rand
Megalurus timoriensis muscalis
Rand, 1938: 4
(Lake Daviumbu, middle Fly; south New
Guinea
).
Now
Megalurus timoriensis muscalis
Rand, 1938
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 426547
, adult male, collected on
Lake Daviumbu
,
07.33S
,
141.15E
(Times Atlas), middle
Fly River
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
9 September 1936
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
George H.H. Tate. From
the 1936–1937
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 5154).
COMMENTS
: The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Nine males
and
three females
were collected (
Rand
, 1942a: 329
)
;
only 10 of the
11 paratypes
were cataloged at
AMNH
:
AMNH 426543–426546
and 426548–426553, all from
Lake Daviumbu.
AMNH 426548
and 426552 were exchanged to
FMNH
in the 1960s
.
Rand
(1942a)
published an account of the birds collected, and
Rand
and Brass (1940)
published a summary of the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition.