Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert

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scientific name	Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert
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Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 34 View in CoL (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).

Now Melidectes belfordi griseirostris (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911) View in CoL . See Gilliard, 1959, Diamond, 1967: 9–12, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, Dickinson, 2003: 438, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693819 About AMNH , male, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5353). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Meek’s unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 514–515) reported on Meek’s Mount Goliath collection and noted that they had six males and four females, giving Meek’s numbers for each. The nine paratypes, all collected in January and February 1911, are: AMNH 693817 About AMNH (Meek no. 5222), AMNH 693818 About AMNH (5148), AMNH 693820 About AMNH (5298), AMNH 693821 About AMNH (5093), AMNH 693822 About AMNH (5354), AMNH 693823 About AMNH (5161), males (as sexed by Meek) ; AMNH 693824 About AMNH (5455), AMNH 693825 About AMNH (5325), AMNH 693826 About AMNH (5248), females (as sexed by Meek) .

Dickinson (2003: 438) and Higgins et al. (2008: 613) did not recognize griseirostris, considering it a hybrid form. However, this population is a stable population of hybrid origin, all specimens showing the same characters, not a ‘‘hybrid swarm,’’ a population of individuals showing a mixture of traits possessed by the supposed parental forms ( Gilliard, 1959: 24).

References

Diamond, J. M. 1967. New subspecies and records of birds from the Karimui Basin, New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 2284: 1 - 17.

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. 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., 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.