Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, 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, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 109-110

Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard

Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 11 (Kimil River, 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Mayr, 1962d: 202; Gilliard, 1969: 248–257; Diamond, 1972: 341–342; Coates, 1990: 532–538; Cracraft, 1992: 38; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 488–498; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 491–492.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348209 , adult female, collected on the Kimil River , 5800 ft, 05.45S, 144.31E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568), 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl , Wahgi Valley , Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (formerly Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 20 April 1950, by collectors for N.B. Blood.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. This specimen and the paratype were gifts to the Gilliard Expedition by N.B. Blood ; both had died in captivity in the Nondugl aviaries. The paratype is AMNH 705628 , immature male, 28 April 1950. Only the two specimens collected in 1950 are part of the type series of margaritae .