Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae
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Saxicola caprata wahgiensis
Mayr and Gilliard
Saxicola caprata wahgiensis
Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 8
(Mafulu, Central Division, Papua, New
Guinea
).
Now
Saxicola caprata wahgiensis
Mayr and Gilliard, 1951
. See
Coates, 1990: 54
, and
Urquhart, 2002: 232
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 419990
, adult female, collected at
Mafula
(5 Mafulu),
1250 m
,
Central Prov.
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
29 September 1933
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand. From
the 1933–1934 (First)
Archbold Expedition
(no. 1468).
COMMENTS: The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description
;
this specimen is also a
paratype
of
S. c. belensis
, see above.
Paratypes
of
S. c. wahgiensis
from the
Wahgi region
, collected in 1950, are
AMNH 705048–705054
,
three males
,
one female
, and
two juveniles
. Of these,
AMNH 705048
was sent to the Australian Museum in 1953,
AMNH 705049
was not found, and
AMNH 705050
was ex changed to the
FMNH
in the early 1960s.
The mountains
of
southeastern New
Guinea
were also included in the range although no measurements were given, and the
eight males
and
eight females
listed above as
paratypes
of
belensis
would be the
holotype
and
paratypes
of
wahgiensis
.
See
Wink et al. (2002a
,
2002b
) for molecular studies of
Saxicola caprata
. Mafulu is shown on the map in
Archbold and
Rand
(1935
: opposite p. 527) and on modern maps as Mafula at ca. 088319S, 1478019E.