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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Myzomela eques nymani
Rothschild and Hartert
Myzomela eques nymani
Rothschild and Hartert, 1903a: 223
(Simbang)
.
Now
Myzomela eques nymani
Rothschild and Hartert, 1903
. See
Coates, 1990: 239–240
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 637–638
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 692634
, adult female, collected at
Simbang
,
06.35S
,
147.50E
(
USBGN
, 1943),
Morobe Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
26 August 1899
, by
E. Nyman. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert designated their single specimen from Simbang as
holotype
. They had four additional specimens in their type series, all of them listed as males, apparently based on plumage. All four of these came to
AMNH
with the Rothschild Collection and are
paratypes
:
AMNH 692619
, low country near
Port Moresby
, 1898, purchased from a dealer
;
AMNH 692626
[said to be from the
upper Aroa River
],
August–September 1899
, collected by
Weiske
;
AMNH 692629
,
Eafa District
,
3000 ft
, 1898
;
AMNH 692630
, no data.
AMNH 692630
was sent to
PNGM
.
The
specimen from the
Eafa District
was probably collected by
A.S. Anthony
(
Rothschild and Hartert, 1901a: 61
)
.