Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri
Rand
Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri
Rand, 1938: 10
(Palmer River, two miles below the junction with Black River, south New
Guinea
).
Now
Colluricincla megarhyncha palmeri
(
Rand, 1938
)
.
See
Mees, 1982: 141–143
,
Coates, 1990: 220–224
,
Dickinson, 2003: 489
, and
Boles, 2007: 431
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 427259
, adult male, collected on the
Palmer River
,
2 miles
below the junction with the
Black River
,
05.45S
,
141.45E
(PNG, 1984),
Western Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
18 July 1936
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
George H.H. Tate
on the 1936–1937
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 4536).
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description and the range of
palmeri
was given as the Fly
River
area from the headwaters to
Lake
Daviumbu on the west bank and to the mouth at Gaima on the east bank.
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 427255–427258
,
427260–427297
. Of these, AMNH 427255 and 427268 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s, and AMNH 427263 was sent to PNGM.
A summary of this expedition was provided by
Rand
and Brass (1940)
and a report on the birds by
Rand
(1942a)
.
Mees (1982: 141–143)
and
Coates (1990: 220–224)
considered
palmeri
a synonym of nominate
megarhyncha
, while
Dickinson (2003: 489)
and
Boles (2007: 431)
recognized
palmeri
.