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 Ptilotis finschi Rothschild and Hartert Ptilotis finschi Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 448 (mountains of British New Guinea ). Now Pycnopygius ixoides finschi (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 402 , Coates, 1990: 273 , and Dickinson, 2003: 436 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 696683 , unsexed, collected in the mountains of Papua New Guinea , purchased from the dealers McIlwraith and McEacharn in October 1898 , Emil Weiske preparation. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: When this form was named, there was a single specimen in the Rothschild Collection, but a specimen in RMNH from Milne Bay was said to be finschi and is a paratype . Salomonsen (1967: 402) thought that the collecting locality of this specimen might be the Aroa River. Weiske collected on the Aroa River between August 1899 and January 1900 ; this holotype was received by Rothschild from the dealer in 1898 and could not have been part of that collection.