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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Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi
Rothschild
Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi
Rothschild, 1921: 285
(Mt. Kunupi,
6,000 ft.
, Weyland Mts.).
Now
Melidectes belfordi joiceyi
(
Rothschild, 1921
)
. See
Gilliard, 1959
,
Salomonsen, 1967: 418
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 613
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 693815
,
[adult male], wing [in molt]:
132 mm
, collected on
Mount Kunupi
,
6000 ft
,
Kobowre
(
5
Weyland)
Mountains
,
03.50S
,
135.55E
(
USBGN
, 1982a),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, in
November–December 1920
, by the
Pratt
brothers (no. 579).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Rothschild cited the Pratt number of the
holotype
in the original description and said that the type series comprised
five males
and
two females
, with inclusive wing measurements given. Five of these specimens came to
AMNH
with the Rothschild Collection
;
the
four paratypes
in
AMNH
, all bearing the same data as the holotype, are:
AMNH 693812
, [male,
129 mm
, worn]
;
AMNH 693813
, [female,
112 mm
]
;
AMNH 693814
, [male,
134 mm
]
;
AMNH 693816
, female, on original label,
113 mm
. None of the specimens other than the
holotype
had a collector’s number on the label. The
two paratypes
that did not come to
AMNH
bear the same data as the above and should have measurements in the range given for males
; one of these is in RMNH (
Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 28
).