Paradisaea apoda salvadorii Mayr and Rand

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 : 107-108

Paradisaea apoda salvadorii Mayr and Rand

Paradisaea apoda salvadorii Mayr and Rand, 1935: 11 (Vanumai, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Paradisaea raggiana raggiana Sclater, 1873 . See Mayr, 1962d: 199; Gilliard, 1969: 222–229; Coates, 1990: 508–516; Cracraft, 1992: 34–35; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 456–469; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 488.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 330366 , adult male, collected at Vanuamai (= Vanumai ), 08.47S, 146.38E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 571), Central Province , Papua New Guinea (formerly Central Division , Territory of Papua ), on 11 June 1929, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 37296).

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand cited the AMNH catalog number of the holotype in the original description and listed their type series. Paratypes of salvadorii: Veimauri, Galley Reach, AMNH 295732 , male immature, 17 August 1920, collected by J.T. Zimmer (no. 1765) ; Cloudy Bay, AMNH 295734 , male immature, 6 January 1921, collected by J.T. Zimmer (2035) ; Vanuamai , AMNH 330367 , 330368 , adult males, both 13 June 1929, collected by Hannibal Hamlin (37297, 37295) ; Deva Deva , AMNH 330377 , adult male, 25 May 1929, collected by Hannibal Hamlin (–) ; Wuroi, Oriomo River , AMNH 422205–422208 , two adult males, one immature male, one female, 18 January–4 February 1934, collected by R. Archbold and A.L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition. Most authors have recognized salvadorii, but Cracraft (1992: 34) synonymized salvadorii with raggiana , saying that ‘‘differences vary, probably clinally, over a large geographic area.’’ This appears to be correct .

Hannibal Hamlin collected these specimens while waiting for repairs to be made to the Whitney Expedition ship, France. The ornithological results of the Archbold Expedition were published by Mayr and Rand (1937) and included mention of the Hamlin and Zimmer collections on pages 1 and 2. A summary of the 1933–1934 expedition was provided by Archbold and Rand (1935).