Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 136-137

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Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 34 View in CoL (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).

Now Melipotes fumigatus goliathi Rothschild and Hartert, 1911 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 420, and Higgins et al., 2008: 632–633.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696317 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 January 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5221). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. In their report on the entire collection, Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 514) gave Meek’s numbers for five males and three females. The seven paratypes, all collected on Mount Goliath in January and

February 1911, are: AMNH 696315 (Meek no. 5364), AMNH 696316 (5363), AMNH 696318 (5189), AMNH 696319 (5142), AMNH 696320 (5086), males; AMNH 696321 (5453), AMNH 696322 (5341), females.

References

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.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1911 c. [The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited examples of some new birds from New Guinea, which they described as follows: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 29: 33 - 35.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1913. List of the collections of birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains, on the Eilanden River, and on Mount Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 473 - 527.

Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.