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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Petroica multicolor septentrionalis
Mayr
Petroica multicolor septentrionalis
Mayr, 1934b: 14
(Bougainville Island,
Solomon Islands
).
Now
Petroica multicolor septentrionalis
Mayr, 1934
. See
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 225221
, adult female, collected on
Bougainville
Island
,
North Solomons Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
19 January 1928
, by
Frederick P. Drowne
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 315).
COMMENTS
: Mayr gave the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and listed measurements for
11 adult
males and
five adult
females.
Paratypes
are: adult males,
AMNH 225204–225208
,
225211– 225213
,
225215
,
225217
, and 225220
;
adult females,
AMNH 225214
,
225222–225224
, and 225227
;
immature males,
AMNH 225216
,
225218
, and 225219
;
immature females,
AMNH 225210
,
225225
, and 225226
;
and
AMNH 225209
, specimen probably missexed. Of these,
AMNH 225211
was exchanged with
ZMB
in
July 1936
.
On
19 January 1928
, Whitney Expedition personnel were camped near the village of Kupei, ca.
06.15S
,
155.27E
, inland from Arawa Bay. The altitude at the camp was about
2300 ft
, but a trail led from the camp to the top of a ridge at
5200 ft
(unpublished journals of Hannibal Hamlin and Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).