Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Archboldia papuensis
Rand
Archboldia papuensis
Rand, 1940: 9
(Bele River, 2200 meters,
18 km
north of Lake Habbema, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New
Guinea
).
Now
Archboldia papuensis papuensis
Rand, 1940
. See
Rand
, 1942: 498
;
Mayr, 1962c: 175
;
Gilliard, 1969: 281–293
;
Coates, 1990: 385–391
; and
Frith and Frith, 2004: 300–302
;
2009a: 396
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 305644
, male, collected on the
Ibele
(=
Bele
)
River
,
2200 m
,
18 km
north of
Danau Habbema
(=
Lake Habbema
),
04.09S
,
138.39E
(
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568
),
Pegunungan Maoke
(=
Snow Mountains
),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
(=
Netherlands
New
Guinea), on
3 December 1938
, by
Richard Archbold, A.L
. Rand, and
W.B. Richardson
, on the 1938–1939
Archbold Expedition
(no. 8490).
COMMENTS:
Rand
cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and noted that he had three males, four females, and one unsexed specimen. The genus
Archboldia
was also described at the same time, with
A. papuensis
the type species. The seven
paratypes
are: Bernhard Camp,
AMNH 342255
, sex?,
9 February 1939
; Lake Habbema,
AMNH 342256–258
, one male, two females,
11–29 October 1938
; Ibele River,
AMNH 342259–342261
, one male, two females,
20 November–4 December 1938
. AMNH 342258 was sent to MZB in
May 1957
.
For a full report on the birds collected on the 1938–1939 expedition, see
Rand (1942)
. For a summary of this expedition, see
Archbold et al. (1942)
and
Brass (1941)
. The expedition was a joint expedition with
the Netherlands
Indies authorities and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie.
Kusmierski et al. (1997)
suggested on the basis of their mitochrondrial cytochrome-
b
sequences that
Archboldia
be included in the genus
Amblyornis
, but
Frith and Frith (2009a: 396)
have retained
Archboldia
. Further study is needed.