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
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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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)
.