Epimachus fastosus (Hermann, 1783)

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Zootaxa 1072 (1), pp. 1-25 : 15-16

Epimachus fastosus [sic] stresemanni Hartert, 1930

Hartert, E. (1930): List of the birds collected by Ernst Mayr. Novitates Zoologicae 36(1): 34 [27–128].

Now Epimachus fastuosus atratus (Rothschild & Hartert, 1911) . See Gilliard and LeCroy 1961: 65, Cracraft 1992: 19 [treated atratus as species], Frith and Beehler 1998: 360, Dickinson 2003: 517.

PARATYPES: ZMB 2002.523 [new registration]. Adult male. Loc. : Schraderberg [Schrader Mts., middle reaches of the Sepik river, Papua New Guinea, 5°18' S, 144°24' E]. Date: 31 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1889. Iris: red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.524 [new registration]. Adult male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 3 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1930. Iris: red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.525 [new registration]. Adult male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 27 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1835. Iris: red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.526 [new registration]. Adult male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 7 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 2000. Iris: red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.527 [new registration]. Adult male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 24 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1789. Iris: brownish red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.528 [new registration]. Adult female. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 9 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 2035. Iris: brownish red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.529 [new registration]. Adult female. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 20 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1715. Iris: brownish red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; beak heavily damaged; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.530 [new registration]. Immature male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 25 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1794. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.531 [new registration]. Adult female. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 25 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1802. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.532 [new registration]. Immature male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 8 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 2018. Iris: brownish red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.533 [new registration]. Adult female. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 8 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 2011. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.534 [new registration]. Immature male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 7 June 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1998. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.535 [new registration]. Immature male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 24 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1782. Iris: brownish red. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] . ZMB 2002.536 [new registration]. Immature male. Loc.: Schraderberg. Date: 30 May 1913. Coll.: Bürgers No. 1870. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: grey. [Skin; data on field label] .

COMMENTS: The Berlin museum holds 14 out of the original 17 specimens collected by Bürgers. At least two, the holotype AMNH 677964, and a female paratype, AMNH 677965, were forwarded to the AMNH. See Ailuroedus melanotis guttaticollis for details on the trip. This taxon was not considered in Meise's MS. The subspecies was named for Prof. Dr. Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972), well known ornithologist and head of Berlin's ornithological collection. Stresemann and Hartert were close friends and colleagues who co­operated in the ornithological investigation of New Guinea and adjacent islands ( Haffer et al. 2000, Steinheimer 2004).