Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)
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Paramythia montium brevicauda
Mayr and Gilliard
Paramythia montium brevicauda
Mayr and Gilliard, 1954: 372
(Saruwaged Mountains, Huon Peninsula, Mandated Territory of New
Guinea
).
Now
Paramythia montium brevicauda
Mayr and Gilliard, 1954
.
See
Salomonsen, 1961b: 8
,
Coates, 1990: 323–325
, and
Dickinson, 2003: 452
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 699236
, adult male, collected in the
Saruwaget
(
5
Saruwaged)
Mountains
,
4000 m
,
06.15S
,
146.45E
(PNG, 1984),
Morobe Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, in
August 1914
, by Christian Keysser. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mayr and Gilliard cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description.
AMNH 699237
, female, also collected by
Keysser
in the
Saruwaget Mountains
in
August 1914
, is the only
paratype
in
AMNH
.
However
,
Mayr
and
Gilliard
included in their description meas- urements from
Mayr’s
specimens collected in the
Saruwaget Mountains
in 1929 (see
Mayr, 1931c: 652–653
)
;
those
paratypes
are in
ZMB
.