Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and 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 : 74-75

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scientific name	Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert
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Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 442 (Dorey) .

Now Meliphaga aruensis sharpei (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) View in CoL . See Rand, 1936: 10–11, Coates, 1990: 283–284, and Higgins et al., 2008: 590.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695788 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Doreh Bay (5 Dorey), 00.55S, 134.04E ( USBGN, 1982a), Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia, in October 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert designated as type the single specimen collected by Doherty at Doreh Bay, and they listed 15

additional specimens in their type series. There are actually 17 specimens that would have been in the Rothschild Collection when the name was published, AMNH 695784 About AMNH and 695809 being the additional specimens. Paratypes are: Waigeo Island (5 Waigeu), male and female, AMNH 695784 About AMNH , 695785 About AMNH ; Batanta Island , male and female, AMNH 695786 About AMNH , 695787 About AMNH ; Arfak , sex?, AMNH 695789 About AMNH ; Ansus , Yapen Island (5 Jobi), male, AMNH 695790 About AMNH ; Keboi Island , near Yapen, male, AMNH 695791 About AMNH ; Takar , sex?, AMNH 695792 About AMNH ; Goodenough Island , females, AMNH 695804 About AMNH , 695805 About AMNH ; Fergusson Island , four males, three females, AMNH 695806–695812 About AMNH . Rothschild and Hartert also included specimens in the HNHM from Erima (southern Astrolabe Bay) in their type series ; however, this collection was entirely destroyed by fire in 1956 ( Horváth, 1970: 363).