TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE
Author
LeCROY, M. A. R. Y.
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Lalage karu trobriandi
Mayr
Lalage karu trobriandi
Mayr, 1936b: 1
(Kiriwina Island,
Trobriand Islands).
Now
Lalage leucomela trobriandi
Mayr, 1936
. See
Coates, 1990: 48
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 223892
, adult male, collected on
Kiriwina Island
,
08°30′S
,
151°05′E
(
Papua New Guinea
General Reference Map
, 1984),
Trobriand Islands
,
Milne Bay Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
6 November 1928
, by
Hannibal Hamlin
, on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 35869).
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description.
Paratypes
are AMNH 223891, 223893–223895, 223901, and 223902 from Kiriwina and Kaileuna islands.
The Whitney Expedition ship
France
had been anchored off a village on the eastern side of Kaileuna Island and had moved directly across to anchor off Kiriwina Island on 5 November (Hamlin, vol. S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH).