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
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Monachella mülleriana coultasi
Mayr
Monachella mülleriana coultasi
Mayr, 1934a: 14
(Andomgi
River
(
2500 ft.
), Wide Bay,
New Britain
).
Now
Monachella muelleriana coultasi
Mayr, 1934
. See
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 394
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 417432
, adult male, collected at
Andamgi village
(
5
Andomgi River
),
2500 ft
,
southern Baining Mountains
,
Gazelle Peninsula
,
East New Britain Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
14 April 1933
, by assistant
John James
for
William Coultas
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 43875).
COMMENTS
: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave measurements of
four males
and
four females
.
Paratypes
are AMNH 334453– 334456,
two males
and
two females
from Andamgi, and AMNH 334568–334570, a male and
two females
from Usuwit
River
, northern Gazelle Peninsula.
According to Coultas’ unpublished journal (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), assistant John James was sent into the Baining Mountains to the village of Andamgi, east of Balayang, where he collected for 6 weeks from
25 March 1933
onward. Bulayang (
5
Balayang) is at
04.55S
,
151.55E
(
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
).