Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand

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scientific name	Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand
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Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand, 1935: 15 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Western Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Xanthotis polygrammus candidior Mayr and Rand, 1935 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 389, Coates, 1990: 278, and Higgins et al., 2008: 688–689.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422322 About AMNH , female, collected at Wuroi , ca. 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964a: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2790). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand gave the AMNH catalog number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had a single paratype: AMNH 422321, female, Wuroi, Oriomo River, 27 January 1934.

For a report on all of the birds collected on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Mayr and Rand (1937), and for a summary of this expedition and a description of collecting localities, see Archbold and Rand (1935).

References

Archbold, R., and A. L. Rand. 1935. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 7. Summary of the 1933 - 1934 Papuan Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 68 (8): 527 - 579, 19 pls.

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

Deignan, H. G. 1964 a. Subfamily Orthonychinae. In E. Mayr and R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editors), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 10, 228 - 240. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 502 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 A. L. Rand. 1935. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 6. Twenty-four apparently undescribed birds from New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago. American Museum Novitates 814: 1 - 17.

Mayr, E., and A. L. Rand. 1937. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 14. The birds of the 1933 - 1934 Papuan Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 73 (1): 1 - 248, 1 pl.

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.