Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903

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scientific name	Myzomela kuehni Rothschild
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Myzomela kuehni Rothschild View in CoL

Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903: 42 (Wetter) .

Now Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903 View in CoL . See White and Bruce, 1986: 401, and Higgins et al., 2008: 649.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692692 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 5 October 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5693). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave Kühn’s original field number of the holotype and said that he sent nine specimens. Paratypes are: AMNH 692688– 692691, 692693–692696, four males, one immature male, and three females, collected on Wetar in September and October 1902 by Kühn. Hartert (1904a) prepared a report on Kühn’s collections from Wetar, Romang, Kisar, Leti, and Moa islands.

References

Hartert, E. 1904 a. The birds of the South-west Islands Wetter, Roma, Kisser, Letti and Moa. Novitates Zoologicae 11: 174 - 221.

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.

White, C. M. N., and M. D. Bruce. 1986. The birds of Wallacea. B. O. U. check-list no. 7. London: British Ornithologists' Union, 524 pp.