Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard

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Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard View in CoL

Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 13 View in CoL (Mt. Wilhelm, Bismarck Mountains, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 416, Coates, 1990: 258– 259, and Higgins et al., 2008: 612.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348207 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Mount Wilhelm , south drainage, 11,800 ft, 05.45S, 145.00E (PNG, 1984), Bismarck Mountains, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, on 10 June 1950, by Robert GoogleMaps

Doyle on the 1950 Gilliard Expedition to New Guinea.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and princeps was said to occur above 10,000 ft in the Kubor Mountains , on Mount Hagen and on Mount Wilhelm. The name was published in 1951, so only those specimens collected on the 1950 expedition are paratypes: Mount Orata , Kubor Mountains, May, AMNH 705810 About AMNH , 705811 About AMNH , 705811 About AMNH bis, males, AMNH 705812 About AMNH , female ; Mount Wilhelm , June, AMNH 705813 About AMNH , 705814 About AMNH , males, AMNH 705815 About AMNH , male?, AMNH 705816– 705818 About AMNH , females ; Mount Hagen , July, AMNH 705819–705821 About AMNH , males, AMNH 705822 About AMNH , female?, AMNH 705823 About AMNH , juvenile, AMNH 705824 About AMNH , sex?. Of these, AMNH 705814 About AMNH and 705816 were exchanged to FMNH and AMNH 705824 About AMNH was sent to AM .

Coates (1990: 256, 258) included this species in the genus Melionyx . See Mayr and Gilliard (1954) for a report on Gilliard’s 1950 and 1952 expeditions.

References

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

Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1951. New species and subspecies of birds from the highlands of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 1524: 1 - 15.

Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1954. Birds of central New Guinea. Results of the American Museum of Natural History expeditions to New Guinea in 1950 and 1952. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 103 (4): 311 - 374, pls. 13 - 34, map.

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.