Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940

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 : 141

Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand

Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940: 12 (Bernhard Camp, altitude 50 meters, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940 . See Coates, 1990: 305–308, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 296–297.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305657 , adult male, collected at Bernhard Camp , 50 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 22 March 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 10213).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes, all from Bernhard Camp, are: AMNH 342402–342409, two adult males, one immature male, four females, and one unsexed. AMNH 342409 was sent to MZB in May 1957.

Rand (1940: 12) discussed treating idenburgi as a subspecies of a separate species, C. clementiae , and this was further mentioned by Coates (1990: 306). Schodde and Mason (1999: 725–726) discussed the issues involved, suggesting four species in the superspecies jugularis ; Cheke and Mann (2008a: 296) thought that the jugularis complex could comprise three species. Additional collecting in the Ramu River area is needed, as was suggested by Gilliard and LeCroy (1968: 31), where a female indistinguishable from C. j. frenatus and a male indistinguishable from C. j. idenburgi were collected at Aiome.

The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. A summary of the expedition will be found in Archbold et al. (1942).