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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Malurus alboscapulatus aida
Hartert
Malurus alboscapulatus aida
Hartert, 1930b: 78
(Ifaar, on the Sentani Lakes).
Now
Malurus alboscapulatus aida
Hartert, 1930
. See
Schodde, 1982: 101
, and
Coates, 1990: 96
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 602750
, adult female, collected at
Ifaar
,
02.34S
,
140.31E
(
USBGN
, 1982a),
Sentani Lake
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
26 September 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 2622).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: In the original description, Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the
holotype
. The type series comprised
24 specimens
, including the
holotype
. Mayr’s fieldwork in former Dutch New
Guinea
was supported jointly by Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH. After the collection was reported on by Hartert, it was divided between the two museums. With purchase of the Rothschild Collection by AMNH, Mayr’s collection was brought together again. Twenty-one of the
23 paratypes
(all that were cataloged) are now present at AMNH: AMNH 293910–293920, 602744–602749, and 602751–602754. In some cases a small representative series from Mayr’s collection was sent to Stresemann in ZMB, and perhaps the other
two paratypes
are there.