Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and Hartert

Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and Hartert, 1929a: 59 (Haidana, Collingwood Bay).

Now Ailuroedus buccoides geislerorum A.B. Meyer, 1891 . See Rothschild and Hartert, 1912b: 209; Mayr, 1941: 187; Gilliard, 1969: 258–263; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 228–233; 2009a: 393.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679783, adult male, collected at Haidana, Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea, on 17 April 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2858). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s field number of the type in the original description but did not mention other specimens. However, in their original report on Meek’s collection at Haidana, they (Rothschild and Hartert, 1912b: 209) listed a male and two females, giving Meek’s numbers for them. The two females are considered paratypes of molestus: AMNH 679784, 679785, collected on 15 and 18 April 1907 by Meek.

Rothschild and Hartert (1929a: 59) restricted the type locality of geislerorum to Astrolabe Bay. Haidana continues to be a problematic locality (see LeCroy, 2008: 216).