Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Megalurus timoriensis stresemanni
Hartert
Megalurus timoriensis stresemanni
Hartert, 1930b: 79
(Kofo (Anggi gidji)).
Now
Megalurus macrurus stresemanni
Hartert, 1930
. See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 597818
, adult male, collected at
Koffo
(
5
Kofo),
Lake Giji
(
5
Anggi gidji),
01.23S
,
133.53E
(Times Atlas),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
12 June 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 1107).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Mayr’s unique field number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Six specimens
were collected, presumably including the
holotype
. Mayr’s expedition to Dutch New
Guinea
in 1928 was sponsored by
Dr. Leonard C. Sanford
for
AMNH
and by Lord Walter Rothschild. His collections, including the types, were divided between
AMNH
and the Rothschild Collection, with representative sets of specimens also going to
MZB
and
ZMB
. Specimens that were in the Rothschild Collection are now in
AMNH
. Of the
five paratypes
of this form, all of them from the type locality, one came directly to
AMNH
:
AMNH 293904
(Mayr no. 1086), adult male
;
three came via the Rothschild Collection:
AMNH 597819
(1113) and 597820 (1082), adult males, and
AMNH 597822
(1100), adult female (but sex questioned by Hartert, 1930: 79), all collected on
11 and 12 June 1928
. The remaining
paratype
is probably in
ZMB
.