Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen

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 : 63

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475795
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scientific name	Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen
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Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen View in CoL

Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966a: 3 View in CoL (Long Island, off the northeastern coast of New Guinea).

Now Myzomela pammelaena nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966 View in CoL . See Diamond, 1976: 4–6, Coates, 1990: 243–245, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 650–651.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422677 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Long Island , Vitiaz Strait, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 2 December 1933, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 44805).

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as Long Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 422678–422683, three males and three females, all collected by Coultas on Long Island on 1 and 2 December 1933.

According to Coultas’ journal volume Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at Malala Bay on the northern end of Long Island, and the base camp was in the village of Malala, 05.15S, 147.10E ( PNG, 1984).

References

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

Diamond, J. M. 1976. Preliminary results of an ornithological exploration of the islands of Vitiaz and Dampier Straits, Papua New Guinea. Emu 76: 1 - 7.

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 J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.

Salomonsen, F. 1966 a. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora 254: 1 - 12.