Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae Author Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-04-29 2011 348 1 193 journal article 0003-0090 Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand, 1936: 20 (Rona, Central Division , Territory of Papua ). Now Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand, 1936 . See Coates, 1990: 292–294 , Dickinson, 2003: 434 , and Higgins et al., 2008: 592 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 421327 , adult male, collected at Rouna ( 5 Rona), 450 m , ca. 09.24S , 147.22E , Central Province , Papua New Guinea , on 11 March 1933 , by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933– 1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 55). COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had 17 specimens , including the type. I did not find one of the females from Rouna mentioned by Rand in either the collection or the catalog. The 15 paratypes in AMNH are: Samarai, male, AMNH 267973 ; Port Moresby , males, AMNH 295693– 295696 ; Orangerie Bay, female, AMNH 295698 ; Papuan mainland opposite Samarai, male, AMNH 330236 ; Baroka, male, AMNH 421323 , females, AMNH 421324, 421325 , sex?, AMNH 421326 ; Rouna, male, AMNH 421091 , female, AMNH 421327A , sex?, AMNH 421328 ; Nicura, male, AMNH 695911 . See Mayr and Rand (1937) for an account of the birds collected and Archbold and Rand (1935) for a summary of the expedition. Higgins et al. (2008: 592) treated cinereifrons as a monotypic species with treatment of subspecies stevensi unresolved.