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
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Sericornis beccarii idenburgi
Rand
Sericornis beccarii idenburgi
Rand, 1941: 11
(1200 meters altitude, 6 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp on the Idenburg River, Netherland New
Guinea
).
Now
Sericornis magnirostra idenburgi
Rand, 1941
. See
Coates, 1990: 105
, and
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 174
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 305908
, adult male, collected
6 km
southwest of
Bernhard Camp
,
1200 m
,
Sungai Taritatu
(
5
Idenburg River
),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
15 February 1939
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
William B. Richardson
on the 1936–1937
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 9494).
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Rand
(1942b: 472)
listed
five males
(including the
holotype
),
four females
, and two of unknown sex. The
paratypes
are AMNH 340677–340685 and 340706. AMNH 340677 and 340685 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s, and AMNH 340678 was exchanged to MZB in 1957.
For a description of the locality, see
Archbold et al. (1942)
. Bernhard Camp is shown at ca.
03.30S
,
139.15E
on map 1. In del
Hoyo et al. (2007: 584–585)
,
idenburgi
is considered a subspecies of
S. beccarii
.