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
Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum
Mayr
Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum
Mayr, 1955: 31
(Lihir Island, Lihir Group).
Now
Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum
Mayr, 1955
. See
Filardi and Smith, 2005
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 313
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 336052
, adult male, collected on
Lihir Island
,
03.10S
,
152.35E
(
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
),
Lihir Group
,
New Ireland Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
17 September 1934
, by
William F. Coultas
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 45793).
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description.
Paratypes
are AMNH 336046–336051 and 336053–336065.
On Lihir Island, William and Esther Coultas had a base camp at ‘‘Landolowit’’ (now spelled Londolovit), a plantation owned by P.L. Kyllert at ca.
03.02S
,
152.37E
(W. Coultas, Vol. Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH).