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 Amblyornis subalaris germanus Rothschild Amblyornis subalaris germanus Rothschild, 1910a: 13 (Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea ). Now Amblyornis germana Rothschild, 1910 . See Hartert, 1928: 190 ; Mayr, 1941: 184 ; Gilliard, 1969: 300–311 ; Coates, 1990: 392–397 ; Coates and Peckover, 2001: 209 ; Dickinson, 2003: 427 ; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 275–278 ; 2009a: 394– 395 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 679570 , [adult female], collected in the Rawlinson Mountains , 06.32S , 147.17E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 570 ), Huon Peninsula , Morobe Province , Papua New Guinea (once part of German New Guinea), undated, obtained from Professor F. Foerster. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: When Rothschild described this form, he had the single complete specimen in female plumage, which he designated as the type, and mentioned that he also had the crest only of a male. The paratype is AMNH 679571 , crest of male obtained ‘‘From natives.’’ A complete male specimen was obtained only after the publication of germana . Coates and Peckover (2001: 209) suggest- ed, based on its shorter crest and very distinctive bower, that this form should perhaps be given species status and, having seen the bower myself, I agree.