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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Philemon inornatus robustus
Mayr
Philemon inornatus robustus
Mayr, 1944: 165
(Mt. Ramelan (2400 meters), eastern Timor).
Now
Philemon inornatus
(G.R. Gray, 1846)
. See
Salomonsen, 1967: 406
,
White and Bruce, 1986: 397
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 684
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 308000
, adult female, collected on
Mount Ramelau
(
5
Ramelan),
2400 m
,
08.55S
,
125.25E
(
USBGN
, 1982a),
eastern Timor
, on
2 May 1932
, by
Georg Stein
(no. 4203).
From
the
Expedition G. Stein.
COMMENTS: Mayr cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and said that
Stein
had collected
42 specimens
of
P. inornatus
in both western and
eastern Timor. His
type series from
eastern Timor
comprised
23 specimens
from
Dili
(
5
Dilly, as on label),
16–30 April 1932
, and
Mount Ramelau
,
3–6 May 1932
;
the
22 paratypes
of
robustus
are:
AMNH 346262– 346283
,
14 males
,
seven females
, one sex?. Stein’s collection was made under the auspices of
ZMB
, Rothschild, and Sterling Rockefeller for
AMNH
. The entire collection came to
AMNH
for study by Mayr and was cataloged at
AMNH
. In
January 1956
, the following
paratypes
were sent to
ZMB
as
Berlin’s
share of this collection:
AMNH 346268
,
346269
,
346273
,
346274
,
346278
,
346281
, and 346282
.