Vosea whitemanensis Gilliard

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 137

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476025
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FF32-FF44-FCE3-FEAC3AC7F9E1
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scientific name	Vosea whitemanensis Gilliard
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Vosea whitemanensis Gilliard View in CoL

Vosea whitemanensis Gilliard, 1960: 2 View in CoL (Wild Dog Range, Whiteman Mountains, central New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago).

Now Melidectes whitemanensis ( Gilliard, 1960) View in CoL . See Diamond, 1971: 482, Coates, 1990: 256, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, Dickinson, 2003: 438, and Higgins et al., 2008: 611.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 708117 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Camp 12, Wild Dog Mountain, Whiteman Mountains, 05.00S, 150.00E (PNG, 1984), West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, on 22 December 1958, by E. Thomas Gilliard. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description, and measurements were given for two males and six females. Paratypes are: Camp 9, Mount Uali, AMNH 778166 About AMNH , female, 10 December 1958 ; Camp 12, Wild Dog Mountain, AMNH 778167 About AMNH , female, AMNH 778168 About AMNH , male, AMNH 778169–778172 About AMNH , females, 16–22 December 1958 .

The altitude at which the type was collected was given on the original label as 7000 ft, but Gilliard had marked through this and pencilled in 5600 ft. Wild Dog Camp 12, from which this specimen was collected, was at 5200 ft. On his return to sea level, Gilliard’s altimeter was found to have malfunctioned, and the corrected altitudes for the various camps are given in Gilliard and LeCroy (1967: 178). See Gilliard (1961: 272) for a painting of this species from life by Margaret Gilliard. It is also illustrated in Mayr and Diamond (2001: pl. 9), but there the color is much too brown and the bill too short.

Diamond (1971: 482) included Vosea in the genus Melidectes and suggested that it was most closely related to M. fuscus . This was followed by Mayr and Diamond (2001: 398), Dickinson (2003: 438), and Higgins et al. (2008: 611), but Vosea was retained by Coates (1990: 256).

References

Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 576 pp.

Diamond, J. M. 1971. Bird records from West New Britain. Condor 73: 481 - 483.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Gilliard, E. T. 1960. Results of the 1958 - 1959 Gilliard New Britain Expedition. 1. A new genus of honeyeater (Aves). American Museum Novitates 2001: 1 - 5.

Gilliard, E. T. 1961. Exploring New Britain's land of fire. National Geographic, February 1961: 260 - 292.

Gilliard, E. T., and M. LeCroy. 1967. Results of the 1958 - 1959 Gilliard New Britain Expedition. 4. Annotated list of birds of the Whiteman Mountains, New Britain. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 (4): 173 - 216.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.