Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Author Pachycephalidae Author Aegithalidae Author Remizidae Author Paridae Author Sittidae Author Neosittidae Author Certhiidae Author Rhabdornithidae Author Climacteridae Author Dicaeidae Author Pardalotidae Author Nectariniidae, And Author Lecroy, Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org) text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 journal article 0003-0090 Pitohui cristata kodonophonos Mayr Pitohui cristata kodonophonos Mayr, 1931c: 676 (terra typica: Aroariver). Now Pitohui cristatus kodonophonos Mayr, 1931 . See Coates, 1990: 232–234 , Boles, 2007: 435 , and Dumbacher et al., 2008 . SYNTYPES : AMNH 656544 ( Meek no. A 430), male, 18 March 1903 ; AMNH 656545 (A 269), male, 22 February 1903 ; AMNH 656546 (A 182), female, 2 February 1903 ; AMNH 656547 (A 265), female, 21 February 1903 ; AMNH 656548 (A 408), female, 12 March 1903 ; AMNH 656549 (A 450), female, 22 March 1903 , all from Avera , upper Aroa River , Central Province , Papua New Guinea , collected by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection . COMMENTS: In naming kodonophonos , Mayr called attention to Hartert’s (1930b: 61) mistakenly calling southeastern New Guinea specimens of Pitohui cristata by Ramsay’s name P. cristata brunneiceps , which is, in fact, a nominal subspecies of Pitohui kirhocephalus . Mayr did not desig- nate a type, stating only that the ‘‘terra typica’’ of kodonophonos was the Aroa River . Rothschild and Hartert (1907: 470) had listed six specimens of P. cristata from the Aroa River , giving Meek’s field numbers ; and those six specimens , which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, are the syntypes listed above. They had not been recognized as types previously ; two of them, AMNH 656544 and AMNH 656547 , were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s . The late W.S. Peckover had researched the location of Avera and thought it to be at ca. 08.38S , 147.05E , very near to Aveva at 08.40S , 147.05E .