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
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Meliphaga mimikae granti
Rand
Meliphaga mimikae granti
Rand, 1936: 4
(Mafulu, alt. 1250 meters,
Central Division
, Territory of
Papua
).
Now
Meliphaga mimikae granti
Rand, 1936
. See
Coates, 1990: 287
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 592– 593
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 421092
, 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
11 November 1933
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand
on the 1933–1934
Archbold Expedition
(no. 2123).
COMMENTS:
Rand
cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and listed
two males
(including the type) and
four females
from
Mafulu
,
one male
from the
Aroa River
, and
one immature
female from the
Hydrographer Range.
Paratypes
in
AMNH
are:
Mafulu
, females,
AMNH 421093
, collected
24 October 1933
;
AMNH 421348
, collected
8 October 1933
;
AMNH 421349
, collected
1 November 1933
;
head of
Aroa River
, male,
AMNH 695829
, collected
15 May 1905
;
Hydrographer Range
, female,
AMNH 695830
, collected
25 February 1918
.
Rand did not give AMNH catalog numbers for specimens other than the type, and I have not found, in either the collection or the catalog,
one male
and
one female
paratype
listed for this subspecies from Mafulu.
For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see
Archbold and Rand (1935)
, and for an account of all of the birds collected, see
Mayr and Rand (1937)
.