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.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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Poecilodryas cryptoleucus
Hartert
Poecilodryas cryptoleucus
Hartert, 1930b: 67
(Lehuma)
.
Now
Peneothello cryptoleuca cryptoleuca
(Hartert, 1930)
. See
Mayr, 1986d: 579
, and
Dickinson, 2003: 519
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 294059
, adult male, collected at
Lehuma
,
01.30S
,
133.55E
(
USBGN
, 1943),
Arfak Peninsula
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
, on
4 June 1928
, by
Ernst Mayr
(no. 993).
COMMENTS
:
Hartert
cited
Mayr’s
unique field number of the
holotype
in the original description and included in his type series
four specimens
from
Ditschi
and
Lehuma
, collected by
Mayr
, and one from
Hatam
, collected by
Beccari. The
four paratypes
are:
AMNH 294058
, male,
Lehuma
,
29 May 1928
;
AMNH 608212
, male, Hatam,
5 July 1875
;
and
AMNH 608213
, male,
6 June 1928
, and
AMNH 608214
, female,
12 June 1928
, mountain near Ditschi.
AMNH 294058
was exchanged to
FMNH
in the early 1960s
.
For further information on Mayr’s New
Guinea
expedition, see
Mayr (1930a)
. The expedition was supported by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH and Rothschild, and the specimens were divided between the Rothschild Museum and AMNH, with a selection going to MZB (
Hartert, 1930a
). In 1932, the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH.