Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
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Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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Meliphaga montana margaretae
Greenway
Meliphaga montana margaretae
Greenway, 1966: 22
(
2800 feet
, near the summit of Mt. Besar, Batanta, off western New
Guinea
[West Irian]).
Now
Meliphaga montana margaretae
Greenway, 1966
. See
Diamond, 1972: 367–370
,
Dickinson, 2003: 433
, and
Higgins et al., 2008: 593
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 789558
, adult male, collected on
Mount Batanta
(
5
Mt. Besar
),
2800 ft
,
00.53S
,
130.36E
(
USBGN
, 1982a),
Batanta Island
,
Papua Province
(
5
West Irian
),
Indonesia
, on
30 June 1964
, by
E. Thomas Gilliard.
COMMENTS: Greenway gave the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and listed the
eight male
,
one female
, and one unsexed
paratypes
by
AMNH
number.
Paratypes
are:
Mount Batanta
, males,
AMNH 789559–789566
;
female,
AMNH
789567
; unsexed,
AMNH
789568
(the last two numbers were reversed in the original description). ‘‘Besar’’ means ‘‘big’’ in Indonesian; this mountain is usually referred to as Mount Batanta.