Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Ptiloprora guisei praedicta
Hartert
Ptiloprora guisei praedicta
Hartert, 1930b: 49
(Wondiwoi (Wandammen)).
Now
Ptiloprora perstriata praedicta
Hartert, 1930
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 414
,
Diamond, 1969: 46– 55
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 658–659
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 294316
, adult male, collected in the
Wondiwoi Mountains
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
8 July 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 1394).
COMMENTS:
Hartert
cited
Mayr’s
unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description and included measurements for
three males
and
one female
.
There
were however
five specimens
;
the
four paratypes
, all collected in the
Wondiwoi Mountains
in
July 1928
, are:
AMNH 294317
(
Mayr’s
no. 1470), male
;
AMNH 294318
(1466), male
;
AMNH 696644
(1449), female [male, initialed by
Hartert
]
;
AMNH 696645
(1412), female
.
Mayr’s expedition was jointly funded by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and Rothschild, with the collection divided between them and a third set sent to MZB. Apparently, all of the specimens of this form are now in AMNH.
Mayr (1930: 24)
landed at Wasior,
02.38S
,
134.27E
(Times Atlas) on the peninsula that juts into Geelvink Bay to the east of Wandammen Bay and entered the Wondiwoi Mountains from there.