Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Meliphaga analoga papuae
Salomonsen
Meliphaga analoga papuae
Salomonsen, 1966a: 4
(Wuroi, Oriomo River, British Papua (western division), southern New
Guinea
).
Now
Meliphaga analoga analoga
(Reichenbach, 1852)
. See
Diamond, 1969: 45
,
1972: 373
,
Coates, 1990: 289–291
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 591
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 422342
, adult male, collected at
Wuroi
,
08.50S
,
143.07E
(
Deignan, 1964a: 234
),
Oriomo River
,
Western Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
28 January 1934
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand
on the 1933–1934
Archbold New
Guinea
Expedition
(no. 2620).
COMMENTS:
Salomonsen
cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘from the
Fly River district
eastward to
Hall Sound.
’’
Paratypes
are:
Oriomo River
:
Wuroi
,
AMNH 422339–422341
;
Fly River
: below junction of
Palmer
and
Black
rivers,
AMNH 428001
,
428005–428030
;
above
D’Albertis Junction
,
AMNH 428031–428033
;
Lake Daviumbu
,
AMNH 428034–428047
,
428133
;
east bank, opposite
Sturt Island
,
AMNH 428048– 428054
;
east bank,
Gaima
,
AMNH 428055– 428076
;
and
Wassi Kussa River
:
AMNH 428077–428085
.
Of
these,
AMNH 428012
and 428016 were exchanged to
FMNH
, and
AMNH 428067
was sent to
PNGM
.