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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Ptilotis analoga vicina
Rothschild and Hartert
Ptilotis analoga vicina
Rothschild and Hartert, 1912: 203
(Sudest Islands)
.
Now
Meliphaga vicina
(
Rothschild and Hartert, 1912
)
. See
Rand, 1936: 21
,
Coates, 1990: 294
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 591–592
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 695918
, adult male, collected on
Tacuta
(
5
Tagula
5
Sudest
) Island,
11.30S
,
153.30E
(
PNG
, 1984),
Louisiade Archipelago
,
Milne Bay Province
, Papua New Guinea, on
8 April 1898
, by
A.S. Meek
(no. 1696).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description but did not mention other specimens. However,
Hartert (1898a: 527)
, in his account of Meek’s 1898 collection from Tacuta, reported under
Ptilotis notata
that Meek sent a series of
seven specimens
. Only six of those specimens came to
AMNH
with the Rothschild Collection. The
five paratypes
in
AMNH
are: males,
AMNH 695917
(Meek no. 1723),
AMNH 695919
(1712)
;
females,
AMNH 695927– 695929
(1603, 1743, 1785)
.