Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Aegithalidae
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Lecroy, Mary
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Dicaeum geelvinkianum simillimum
Hartert
Dicaeum geelvinkianum simillimum
Hartert, 1930b: 51
(Hollandia)
.
Now
Dicaeum geelvinkianum diversum
Rothschild and Hartert, 1903
.
See
Salomonsen, 1960c: 28
, and
Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 383–384
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 698106
, adult male, collected at
Jayapura
(
5
Hollandia),
03.00S
,
139.30E
(
USBGN
, 1982),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
1 August 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 1690).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert gave Mayr’s unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description, the only specimen he collected. There was
one paratype
:
AMNH 698107
, [male], collected near Humboldt Bay by J.M. Dumas; this specimen is also a
paratype
of
D. g. diversum
, above. For more information on Mayr’s expedition, see
Hartert (1930a: 18–19)
and
Mayr (1930: 20–26)
.