Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna
Rand
Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna
Rand, 1938: 9
(Kubuna,
Central Division
, Territory of
Papua
).
Now
Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna
Rand, 1938
. See del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 230
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 420457
, adult male, collected at
Kubuna
, ca.
08.42S
,
146.45E
,
Central Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
3 December 1933
, by
Richard Archbold
and
Austin L. Rand
on the 1933–1934
Archbold New
Guinea
Expedition
(no. 2220).
COMMENTS
: The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description, and specimens were collected at Mafulu, Kubuna, and Veimauri.
Paratypes
are
AMNH 420456
and 420458, Kubuna
;
AMNH 420459
, Mafulu
;
AMNH 420460– 420463
, Kubuna
;
and
AMNH 295568
, Veimauri. Of these,
AMNH 420456
and 420461 were exchanged to
FMNH
in the early 1960s
.
For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see
Archbold and
Rand
(1935)
, and for a report on the birds collected, see
Mayr and
Rand
(1937)
.