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
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Sericornis beccarii randi
Mayr
Sericornis beccarii randi
Mayr, 1937: 10
(Wuroi, Oriomo
River
,
Western Division
of
Papua
).
Now
Sericornis magnirostra randi
Mayr, 1937
. See
Coates, 1990: 105
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 174
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 422041
, unsexed [
5
adult
male], collected at
Wuroi
,
08.50S
,
143.07E
(
Deignan, 1964: 234
),
Oriomo River
,
Western Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
25 January 1934
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand
on the 1933–1934
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 2576).
COMMENTS
: Mayr cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description
;
his type series comprised
two males
and
one female
. The
paratypes
are
AMNH 422039
, male, and
AMNH 422040
, female. The latter specimen was exchanged to
FMNH
in the 1960s
.
For a description of this locality, see
Archbold and
Rand
(1935: 576)
. The form was listed as ‘‘
Sericornis beccarii
subspecies’’ in
Mayr and
Rand
(1937: 120)
and as
Sericornis beccarii randi
in del
Hoyo et al. (2007: 584–585)
.