Neneba striativentris axillaris Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 105

Neneba striativentris axillaris Mayr

Neneba striativentris axillaris Mayr, 1931c: 670 (Snow Mts.) .

Now Melanocharis striativentris axillaris (Mayr, 1931) . See Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 336.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 698710 , adult female, collected in the south watershed of the Maoke (5 Snow) Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 10 August 1910, by A.S. Meek (no. 4591). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meek collected the single specimen, which Mayr had from the Rothschild Collection. Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 511), under the binomen M. striativentris , listed this specimen and reported (on p. 473): ‘‘Most of Meek’s collections were made on the Setekwa River, a small tributary of the Oetakwa [5 Utakwa] River, and at elevations from 2500 to 3000 ft. ’’ The junction of the Setekwa and Utakwa rivers is at 04.54S, 137.19E (USBGN, 1982).