Meliphaga montana sepik Rand, 1936

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 : 73

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475817
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scientific name	Meliphaga montana sepik Rand
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Meliphaga montana sepik Rand View in CoL

Meliphaga montana sepik Rand, 1936: 7 View in CoL (Hunsteinspitze, Sepik District, New Guinea).

Now Meliphaga montana sepik Rand, 1936 View in CoL . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370, Dickinson, 2003: 433, and Higgins et al., 2008: 593.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 448977 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Hunstein Peak (5 Huntsteinspitze), 04.30S, 142.40E ( USBGN, 1943), Hunstein Mountains , East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, on 2 March 1913, by Joseph Bürgers (no. 1364). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he based his description on eight males and three females from Hunstein Peak. The holotype came to AMNH via the Rothschild Collection but was cataloged separately as Rand named this form before the Rothschild specimens of Meliphagidae were cataloged. However, no other Hunstein Peak specimens of this form came to AMNH. Perhaps Rand borrowed specimens from ZMB, where the bulk of the Bürgers Collection is housed. Stresemann (1923: 58) reported that one specimen of Meliphaga montana was collected at Maeanderberg and 22 specimens on Hunstein Peak. The holotype of sepik is also a paratype of germanorum, see below.

References

Diamond, J. M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 12. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 438 pp.

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.

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.

Rand, A. L. 1936. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 11. Meliphaga analoga and its allies. American Museum Novitates 872: 1 - 23.

Stresemann, E. 1923. Dr. Burgers' ornithologische Ausbeute im Stromgebiet des Sepik. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 89 (8): 1 - 92.