Ptiloprora erythropleura dammermani Stresemann and Paludan

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Ptiloprora erythropleura dammermani Stresemann and Paludan

Ptiloprora erythropleura dammermani Stresemann and Paludan (in Stresemann et al.), 1934: 44 (Sumuri 2200 m).

Now Ptiloprora erythropleura dammermani Stresemann and Paludan, 1934 . See Dickinson, 2003: 438, and Higgins et al., 2008: 657–658.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302571 , adult male, collected on Mount Sumuri , 2200 m, Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains, 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 23 August 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1896).

COMMENTS: Stresemann and Paludan cit- ed Stein’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description; in their report on the birds collected by Stein in the Weylands, Hartert et al. (1936: 199) noted that he had collected six males and seven females on Mount Kunupi and Mount Sumuri. This collection was made under the joint auspices of ZMB, Rothschild, and L.C. Sanford for

AMNH. With the purchase of the Rothschild Collection in 1932, AMNH received approximately two-thirds of the collection plus types, ZMB the remainder. The nine paratypes sent to AMNH are: Kunupi, AMNH 302572– 302575, males, AMNH 302576–302579, females, AMNH 302580, sex?. Of these, AMNH 302575 was exchanged to MCZ in 1939, and AMNH 302577 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s.