Ailuroedus crassirostris facialis Mayr

Ailuroedus crassirostris facialis Mayr, 1936: 4 (Snow Mountains (Utakwa River), Dutch New Guinea).

Now Ailuroedus melanotis facialis Mayr, 1936 . See Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 473–527; Mayr, 1962c: 174; Gilliard, 1969: 266–273; Dickinson, 2003: 427; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 235–238; 2009a: 393–394.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 448982, adult male, collected on the Setakwa River (= tributary of the Otakwa / Utakwa River), 04.34S, 137.21E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 570), Nassau Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia (= Dutch New Guinea), on 24 September 1910, by Alfred S. Meek (no. 4727). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and noted that he had a type series of two males and four females. The five paratypes, all collected by Meek on the Setekwa River in 1910, are: AMNH 679692 (Meek’s no. 4577), 6 August, male ; AMNH 679693 (4650), 27 August, AMNH 679694 (4854), 19 October, AMNH 679695 (4948), 3 November, AMNH 697696 (4601), 12 August, four females .

On this expedition, Meek accompanied a Dutch expedition that had entered the Otakwa River and from there moved up a tributary, the Setekwa River. From the expedition’s ‘‘Canoe Camp’’ Meek moved inland to collect mostly between 610 and 915 m (Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 473; LeCroy and Jansen, 2011: 182).