Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
313
1
287
journal article
0003-0090
Myiagra rubecula sciurorum
Rothschild and Hartert
Myiagra rubecula sciurorum
Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 316
, 318 (Rossel Island).
Now
Myiagra rubecula sciurorum
Rothschild and Hartert, 1918
. See del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 317
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 652959
, adult female, collected on
Yela
(
5
Rossel
) Island,
11.20S
,
154.10E
(
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
),
Louisiade Archipelago
,
Milne Bay Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
3 March 1898
, by the
Eichhorn
brothers for
Albert S. Meek
(no. 1532).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Meek’s unique field number of the
holotype
was given in the original description. The type series comprised specimens from Sudest, Rossel, and Misima islands.
Paratypes
are: AMNH 652944– 652958 and 652960–652965. AMNH 652955 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.