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 Parotia wahnesi Rothschild Parotia wahnesi Rothschild (in Foerster and Rothschild), 1906: 2 (mountains of German New Guinea ). Now Parotia wahnesi Rothschild, 1906 . See Hartert, 1919: 128 ; Mayr, 1931c: 649 ; 1962d: 196 ; Gilliard, 1969: 170–172 ; Diamond, 1985: 79–80 ; Coates, 1990: 469–471 ; Cracraft, 1992: 29 ; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 292–297 ; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 471–472 . LECTOTYPE : AMNH 678233 , adult male, collected in the Rawlinson Mountains , 06.32S , 147.17E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 570 ), Huon Peninsula , Morobe Province , Papua New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea), in December 1905 – January 1906 , by Carl Wahnes. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: The description of this species was printed in a three-page separate publication, for a copy of which I am most grateful to Clifford Frith. No type was designated in the original description, in which both male and female were described. A much-shortened description was published by Rothschild (1906: 7–8) and further notes on the species and a plate were published by Rothschild (1911: 356 , pl. VI), but by that time he had additional, but undated, males. Hartert (1919: 128) listed as the type a ‘‘fere ad.’’ male, collected in the Rawlinson Mountains in December 1905 – January 1906 , thereby designating as the lectotype AMNH 678233, a male molting into adult plumage but in which a few of the primaries and secondaries retain the brown of immaturity; it bears a Rothschild type label. The paralectotypes in AMNH are two females collected at the same time and place by Wahnes, AMNH 678234 and 678235 .