Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephalidae
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Lecroy, Mary
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Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale
Rand
Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale
Rand, 1941: 15
(Balim River, 1600 meters, Netherland [sic] New
Guinea
).
Now
Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale
Rand, 1941
.
See
Salomonsen, 1960c: 28
, and
Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 383–384
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 306379
, adult male, collected on the Baliem (
5
Balim) River,
1600 m
,
04.25S
,
138.59E
(
USBGN
, 1982),
Papua Province
(
5
Netherlands
New
Guinea),
Indonesia
, on
16 December 1938
, by
Richard Archbold
,
Austin L. Rand
, and
W.B. Richardson
on the 1938–1939
Archbold Expedition
to
New
Guinea (no. 8761).
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Rand
did not list his type series but gave measurements of
eight males
and
seven females
.
Paratypes
, all collected in
December 1938
at the type locality, are: males,
AMNH 343126–343132
, females,
AMNH 343133– AMNH 343139
. AMNH 343134 was sent to MZB in
May 1957
.
The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with
the Netherlands
East Indies government and was known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. For a summary of the expedition, see
Archbold et al. (1942)
; and for an account of birds collected, see
Rand (1942b)
.