Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild

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 : 133

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476019
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scientific name	Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild
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Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild View in CoL

Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild, 1921: 285 View in CoL (Mt. Kunupi, 6,000 ft., Weyland Mts.).

Now Melidectes belfordi joiceyi ( Rothschild, 1921) View in CoL . See Gilliard, 1959, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693815 About AMNH , [adult male], wing [in molt]: 132 mm, collected on Mount Kunupi , 6000 ft, Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains , 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, in November–December 1920, by the Pratt brothers (no. 579). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild cited the Pratt number of the holotype in the original description and said that the type series comprised five males and two females, with inclusive wing measurements given. Five of these specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; the four paratypes in AMNH, all bearing the same data as the holotype, are: AMNH 693812 About AMNH , [male, 129 mm, worn] ; AMNH 693813 About AMNH , [female, 112 mm] ; AMNH 693814 About AMNH , [male, 134 mm] ; AMNH 693816 About AMNH , female, on original label, 113 mm. None of the specimens other than the holotype had a collector’s number on the label. The two paratypes that did not come to AMNH bear the same data as the above and should have measurements in the range given for males ; one of these is in RMNH ( Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 28).

References

Dekker, R. W. R. J., and C. Quaisser. 2006. Type specimens in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 3. Passerines: Pachycephalidae-Corvidae (Peters's sequence). Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Technical Bulletin 9: 1 - 77.

Gilliard, E. T. 1959. The ecology of hybridization in New Guinea honeyeaters (Aves). American Museum Novitates 1937: 1 - 26.

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. 1921. On some birds from the Weyland Mountains, Dutch New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 28: 280 - 294.

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.