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 Meliphaga montana auga Rand Meliphaga montana auga Rand, 1936: 6 (Mafulu, alt. 1250 meters, Central Division , Territory of Papua ). Now Meliphaga albonotata (Salvadori, 1876) . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370 , Coates, 1990: 284– 286 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 591 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 421337 , adult male, collected at Mafulu , 1250 m , 08.31S , 147.01E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569 , converted to degrees and minutes), Central Province , Papua New Guinea , on 3 November 1933 , by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2026). COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had two males from Bella Vista and four males , three females , and three immatures from Mafulu. The 11 paratypes are: Bella Vista, males, AMNH 421094 , 421342 ; Mafulu, males, AMNH 421333 , 421334 , 421335 , 421336 (immature) ; females, AMNH 421095 , 421338 , 421339 (immature) , 421340 (immature), 421341 . Of these, AMNH 421339 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s and is now FMNH 280975 (D. Willard, personal commun.). All of the birds collected on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition were reported on by Mayr and Rand (1937) , and a summary of the expedition was given by Archbold and Rand (1935) .