Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-04-29 2011 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 442 (Dorey) . Now Meliphaga aruensis sharpei (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) . See Rand, 1936: 10–11 , Coates, 1990: 283–284 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 590 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 695788 , adult male, collected at Doreh Bay ( 5 Dorey), 00.55S , 134.04E ( USBGN , 1982a), Vogelkop Peninsula , Papua Province , Indonesia , in October 1896 , by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert designated as type the single specimen collected by Doherty at Doreh Bay, and they listed 15 additional specimens in their type series. There are actually 17 specimens that would have been in the Rothschild Collection when the name was published, AMNH 695784 and 695809 being the additional specimens. Paratypes are: Waigeo Island ( 5 Waigeu ), male and female, AMNH 695784 , 695785 ; Batanta Island , male and female, AMNH 695786 , 695787 ; Arfak , sex?, AMNH 695789 ; Ansus , Yapen Island ( 5 Jobi ), male, AMNH 695790 ; Keboi Island , near Yapen , male, AMNH 695791 ; Takar , sex?, AMNH 695792 ; Goodenough Island , females, AMNH 695804 , 695805 ; Fergusson Island , four males , three females , AMNH 695806–695812 . Rothschild and Hartert also included specimens in the HNHM from Erima ( southern Astrolabe Bay ) in their type series ; however, this collection was entirely destroyed by fire in 1956 ( Horváth, 1970: 363 ).