Cinnyris sericeus eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 138

Cinnyris sericeus eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert

Cinnyris sericeus eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert (in Hartert) 1926b: 41 (Feni Island).

Now Leptocoma aspasia eichhorni ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1926) . See Coates, 1990: 304–305, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 268–269.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 687236 , adult male, collected in the Feni Islands , New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 10 May 1924, by Albert F. Eichhorn (Eichhorn-Meek no. 9221). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited the Eichhorn-Meek field number of the holotype in the original description and said that they had eight specimens of both sexes. Eichhorn was Meek’s brother-in-law; they frequently collected together and used the same set of numbers. Paratypes, all collected by Eichhorn in the Feni Islands in 1924, are: AMNH 687235 (field no. 9218), male, 9 May, AMNH 687237 (9305), male, 22 May, AMNH 687238 (9319), male, 23 May, AMNH 687239 (9323), male immature, 24 May, AMNH 687240 (9316), male immature, 23 May, AMNH 687241 (9320), female, 24 May, AMNH 687242 (9400), female, 13 June (!) .

The Feni Islands comprise several small islands, the largest of which is Ambitle, 04.05S, 153.47E (Times Atlas).

For a discussion of changes in nomenclature, see above under Cinnyris sericea vicina .