Eafa maculata Rothschild and Hartert, 1903

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 : 106

Eafa maculata Rothschild and Hartert

Eafa maculata Rothschild and Hartert, 1903c: 448 ( Eafa District in British New Guinea (Owen Stanley Range) between 1000 and 3000 ft. elevation).

Now Rhamphocharis crassirostris piperata (De Vis, 1898) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 171, Coates, 1990: 322–323, and Gregory, 2008: 336– 337.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 698730 , unsexed, collected in the Eafa district, 1000–3000 ft, Owen Stanley Mountains , Papua New Guinea, date unknown, by A.S. Anthony (no. E.61) and purchased from the dealers Mc- Ilwraith and McEacharn, London. From the Rothschld Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert had a single specimen and named the genus Eafa at the same time that E. maculata was described. The holotype is figured in the frontispiece taken from (pl. 14, fig. 1 in) volume 10 of Novitates Zoologicae, 1903. According to Rothschild and Hartert (1901: 61), the Eafa District is between mounts Alexander, 09.15S, 147.40E (USBGN, 1943) and Bellamy, 09.00S, 147.45E (USBGN, 1943).