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 Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr, 1936: 6 (Goodenough Island). Now Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr, 1936 . See Salomonsen, 1960c: 29 , and Cheke and Mann, 200b: 383–384. HOLOTYPE : AMNH 450786 , adult male, collected in the mountains of Goodenough Island , 09.20S , 150.15E (PNG, 1984), D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago , Milne Bay Province , Papua New Guinea , on 14 April 1913 , by Albert S. Meek (no. 5581). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of violaceum as Fergusson , Goodenough , and Dobu islands. Paratypes are specimens from the Rothschild Collection collected by Meek and from the Whitney South Sea Expedition taken on these islands: Goodenough Island , Whitney Expedition , November 1928 , AMNH 224082 , 224084 ; Goodenough Island , Meek , April– May 1913 , AMNH 698084–698088 ; December 1896 , AMNH 698089 ; Fergusson Island , Whitney Expedition , November 1928 , AMNH 224064 , 224064 bis , 224072–224081 ; Fergusson Island , Meek , September 1894 , AMNH 698090–698096 ; Dobu Island , Whitney Expedition , December 1928 , AMNH 330156 , 330157 . Of these, AMNH 224074 was exchanged to ZMUC in May 1959 . Dicaeum geelvinkianum rosseli Rothschild and