Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941

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scientific name	Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand
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Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand View in CoL

Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941: 14 View in CoL (Balim River, 1600 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 419, and Dickinson, 2003: 438.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 306378 About AMNH , adult male, collected on the Baliem (5 Balim) River, 1600 m, 04.25S, 138.59E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 12 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8613). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of six males and three females, all specimens from the Baliem River area between 1600 and 2200 m. The eight paratypes are: Baliem River, 1600 m, AMNH 342780–342784 About AMNH , males ; AMNH 342785 About AMNH , 342786 About AMNH , females ; Ibele (5 Bele) River, 18 km north of Lake Habbema, 2200 m, AMNH 342787 About AMNH , female. AMNH 342785 About AMNH was sent to MZB in May 1957. This was a joint expedition with the Netherlands Indies Government, also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. For a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942) .

References

Archbold, R., A. L. Rand, and L. J. Brass. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 41. Summary of the 1938 - 1939 New Guinea Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79 (3): 199 - 288, 35 pls., 3 maps.

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.

Rand, A. L. 1941. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 32. New and interesting birds from New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 1102: 1 - 15.

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.