Manucodia comrii trobriandi Mayr

Manucodia comrii trobriandi Mayr, 1936: 3 (Kaileuna, Trobriand Islands) .

Now Manucodia comrii trobriandi Mayr, 1936 . See Mayr, 1962d: 185; Gilliard, 1969: 102–104; Coates, 1990: 436–437; Cracraft, 1992: 9–10; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 224–229; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 463–464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 224342, adult male, collected on Kaileuna Island, 08.30S, 150.55E (PNG, 1984), Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 2 November 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin (no. 137) on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements for 12 males and 10 females from Kiriwina and Kaileuna islands. There are 22 specimens from Kiriwina and Kaileuna in the type series, but 13 are sexed as males and nine as females. The 21 paratypes, all collected by Hannibal Hamlin, are: Kaileuna Island, AMNH 224338–224341, 224343–224346, 330444–330451, nine males, seven females, 1–3 November 1928 ; Kiriwina Island, AMNH 224347–224350, 330452, three males, two females, 7–8 November 1928. AMNH 224347 was exchanged to ZMB in July of 1936 and is now ZMB 36.518 (Steinheimer, 2005: 10) .

Of recent authors, only Cracraft considered Manucodia comrii monotypic, although Frith and Beehler (1998: 226) and Frith and Frith (2009b: 463) noted that the two subspecies are poorly differentiated.