Anthreptes meeki Hartert

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 : 48

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scientific name	Anthreptes meeki Hartert
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Anthreptes meeki Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 239 (Ins. Fergusson).

Now Oedistoma pygmaeum meeki (Hartert, 1896) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919a: 174, Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 337–338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691209 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Fergusson Island , on 6 October 1894, by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited the unique collection date of 6 October 1894 for the type specimen but did not say how many specimens he examined. There are four paratypes collected by Meek on Fergusson in 1894 now in AMNH: males, AMNH 691208 About AMNH , 691210 About AMNH , 5 About AMNH and 22 October ; females, AMNH 691211 About AMNH , 691214 About AMNH , – September and 4 October .

On Fergusson, Meek (1913: 45, 58) had his base near Nade (Nadi in Meek, 1913), ca. 09.40S, 150.42E, on the southwest coast, and stayed there four months in 1894.

References

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.

Gregory, P. A. 2008. Family Melanocharitidae (Berrypeckers and Longbills). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 322 - 340. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Hartert, E. 1919 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.

Meek, A. S. 1913. A naturalist in cannibal land. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 238 pp.