Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Neositta papuensis alba
Rand
Neositta papuensis alba
Rand, 1940: 10
(altitude 1800 meters,
15 km
. southwest Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New
Guinea
).
Now
Daphoenositta papuensis alba
(Rand, 1940)
.
See
Schodde and Mason, 1999: 429–430
,
Dickinson, 2003: 473
,
Noske, 2007a: 640–641
, and
Christidis and Boles, 2008: 192
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 305659
, adult male, collected
15 km
southwest of
Bernhard Camp
,
1800 m
, ca.
03.30S
,
139.15E
(
Archbold et al., 1942
: map 1),
Taritatu
(
5
Idenburg
)
River
,
Papua Province
(
5
Netherlands
New
Guinea),
Indonesia
, on
24 January 1939
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
W.B. Richardson. From
the third
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea.
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description. The type series comprised
four male
specimens collected on the same day. The
three paratypes
are:
AMNH 342332
,
342333
, and
342334
. AMNH 342333 was sent to MZB in 1957.
Rand (1942b)
published a report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition, and
Archbold et al. (1942)
published a general summary of the expedition. This expedition was also known as the Indisch-Americaansche Expeditie, a joint expedition with the government of
the Netherlands
East Indies.
Daphoenositta miranda kuboriensis
Mayr and