Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild

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Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild
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Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 319 View in CoL (Sudest Island).

Now Philemon buceroides tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert, 1918 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 409, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680– 681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697151, adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Tagula or Sudest) Island, 11.30S, 153.30E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 6 May 1916, by Albert F. Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 7411). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and had a type series of three males. The two paratypes, also from Tacuta, are: AMNH 697150, 7 May 1916; AMNH 697152, 6 May 1916.

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.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1918. Further notes on the birds of Sudest Island, or Tagula, in the Louisiade Group. Novitates Zoologicae 25: 313 - 326.

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.

Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.

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