Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 11 (Kimil River, 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea ). Now Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Mayr, 1962d: 202 ; Gilliard, 1969: 248–257 ; Diamond, 1972: 341–342 ; Coates, 1990: 532–538 ; Cracraft, 1992: 38 ; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 488–498 ; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 491–492 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 348209 , adult female, collected on the Kimil River , 5800 ft , 05.45S , 144.31E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568 ), 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl , Wahgi Valley , Western Highlands Province , Papua New Guinea (formerly Central Highlands , Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 20 April 1950 , by collectors for N.B. Blood. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. This specimen and the paratype were gifts to the Gilliard Expedition by N.B. Blood ; both had died in captivity in the Nondugl aviaries. The paratype is AMNH 705628 , immature male, 28 April 1950 . Only the two specimens collected in 1950 are part of the type series of margaritae .