Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-04-29 2011 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966a: 3 (Long Island, off the northeastern coast of New Guinea ). Now Myzomela pammelaena nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966 . See Diamond, 1976: 4–6 , Coates, 1990: 243–245 , Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 650–651 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 422677 , adult male, collected on Long Island , Vitiaz Strait , Madang Province , Papua New Guinea , on 2 December 1933 , by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 44805). COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as Long Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 422678–422683 , three males and three females , all collected by Coultas on Long Island on 1 and 2 December 1933 . According to Coultas’ journal volume Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France , was anchored at Malala Bay on the northern end of Long Island, and the base camp was in the village of Malala, 05.15S , 147.10E ( PNG , 1984).