Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand, 1936

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publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475829
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scientific name	Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand
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Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand View in CoL

Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand, 1936: 20 View in CoL (Rona, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Meliphaga gracilis cinereifrons Rand, 1936 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 292–294, Dickinson, 2003: 434, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 421327 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Rouna (5 Rona), 450 m, ca. 09.24S, 147.22E, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 11 March 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933– 1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 55). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had 17 specimens, including the type. I did not find one of the females from Rouna mentioned by Rand in either the collection or the catalog. The 15 paratypes in AMNH are: Samarai, male, AMNH 267973; Port Moresby, males, AMNH 295693– 295696; Orangerie Bay, female, AMNH 295698; Papuan mainland opposite Samarai, male, AMNH 330236; Baroka, male, AMNH 421323, females, AMNH 421324, 421325, sex?, AMNH 421326; Rouna, male, AMNH 421091, female, AMNH 421327A, sex?, AMNH 421328; Nicura, male, AMNH 695911. See Mayr and Rand (1937) for an account of the birds collected and Archbold and Rand (1935) for a summary of the expedition. Higgins et al. (2008: 592) treated cinereifrons as a monotypic species with treatment of subspecies stevensi unresolved.

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.

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.

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.

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