Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Lichmera bougainvillei
Mayr
Lichmera bougainvillei
Mayr, 1932: 16
(Bougainville Island,
Solomon Islands
).
Now
Stresemannia bougainvillei
(
Mayr, 1932
)
. See
Schodde, 1977: 82–83
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 630–631
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 221797
, adult male, collected on
Bougainville
Island
,
North
Bougainville Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
13 January 1928
, by
Frederick P. Drowne
(no. 232) on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition.
COMMENTS: Mayr gave the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and measurements for
13 adult
males,
six immature
males,
six adult
females, and
two immature
females.
The
26 paratypes
, all from
Bougainville
and collected between
31 December 1927
and
30 January 1928
, are:
AMNH 221792–221796
,
221798–221818
. Of these, I did not find
AMNH
221792 in
the collection
;
AMNH 221793
was exchanged to
ZMB
;
and
AMNH 221796
and 221811 were exchanged to
ANSP
.
The expedition base camp on
Bougainville
was at Kupei,
06.15S
,
155.25E
(
PNG
, 1984), according to Drowne’s journal volume Q, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.