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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Phylloscopus trivirgatus moorhousei
Gilliard and LeCroy
Phylloscopus trivirgatus moorhousei
Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 206
(Wild Dog Range, Whiteman Mountains, central
New Britain
, 5200± ft).
Now
Phylloscopus poliocephalus moorhousei
Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967
. See
Coates, 1990: 81– 82
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 671–672
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 708134
, adult male, collected at
Camp
12 on
Wild Dog Mountain
, ca.
5200 ft
,
Whiteman Range
,
05.50S
,
150.00E
(
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
),
West New Britain Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
17 December 1958
, by
E. Thomas Gilliard.
COMMENTS
: The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description. The type series comprised
six males
(including the
holotype
),
nine females
, and one sex?.
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 777976– 777990
. I did not
find AMNH
777978 in
the collection
;
AMNH 777990
was sent to the
Papua New Guinea
Museum
and
Art Gallery
in
Port Moresby
.
Specimens from the Gilliard
New Britain
collection are labeled with altitudes that are too high, due to a malfunction of the altimeter. Approximate altitudes of the various camps are given in the itinerary (
Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 178
).