Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond

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 : 132-133

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Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi Diamond

Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond, 1967: 9 (Camp 3, Mt. Karimui, Eastern Highlands District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea, 5100 feet).

Now Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi Diamond, 1969 View in CoL . See Diamond, 1969: 55, Diamond, 1972: 391–396, Coates, 1990: 262–263, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613–614.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 786040 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Camp 3, Mount Karimui, 5100 ft, 06.30S, 144.45E (PNG, 1984), Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, on 17 August 1965, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 2202). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Diamond cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed his type series. Subsequently, M. r. gilliardi proved to be a junior primary homonym of Melidectes fuscus gilliardi Salomonsen, 1966 , and was replaced by Diamond (1969: 55) with Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi . Both names share the same type (ICZN, 1999, Art. 57.2, Art. 72.7). Diamond’s type series comprised 14 males, 18 females, five sex? from Mount Karimui,

and six males, three females, and three sex? from Awande, all collected June–September 1965; the following paratypes came to AMNH: Awande , AMNH 809394–809397 About AMNH , males ; Mount Karimui , AMNH 809398– 809400 About AMNH , females, AMNH 809401–809404 About AMNH , 809407–809409 About AMNH , males, AMNH 809405 About AMNH , 809406 About AMNH , sex ?.

References

Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 576 pp.

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

Diamond, J. M. 1969. Preliminary results of an ornithological exploration of the North Coastal Range, New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 2362: 1 - 57.

Diamond, J. M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 12. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 438 pp.

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.