Myzomela rosenbergii longirostris Mayr and

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 : 69-70

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Myzomela rosenbergii longirostris Mayr and Rand

Myzomela rosenbergii longirostris Mayr and Rand, 1935: 12 View in CoL (Goodenough Island, D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago).

Now Myzomela rosenbergii longirostris Mayr and Rand, 1935 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 249–250, LeCroy and Peckover, 1999: 62–65, and Higgins et al., 2008: 653–654.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 224215, adult male, collected on Goodenough Island, D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 November 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 36010).

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and a type series comprising one adult male, four immature males, and one immature female. The five paratypes are: immature males, AMNH 224216– 224219; immature female, AMNH 224220.

According to Hamlin’s journal, volume T, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored in Mud Bay, 09.25S, 150.20E ( PNG, 1984), and Hamlin and collector David camped inland at 1900 ft from 19–23 November.

References

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.

LeCroy, M., and W. S. Peckover. 1999. Plumages of the Red-collared Honeyeater Myzomela rosenbergii longirostris from Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 119: 62 - 65.

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.