Crateroscelis murina pallida Rand, 1938

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 125

Crateroscelis murina pallida Rand

Crateroscelis murina pallida Rand, 1938: 2 (east bank Fly River, opposite Sturt Island).

Now Crateroscelis murina pallida Rand, 1938 . See Coates, 1990: 100, and Dickinson, 2003: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 426456 , adult male, collected on the east bank of the Fly River , opposite Sturt Island, 08.15S, 142.15E ( USBGN, 1943), Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 30 October 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and G.H.H. Tate on the 1936–1937 (Second) Archbold New Guinea Expedition (no. 5933).

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and later ( Rand, 1942a: 326) listed his type series. Paratypes are: AMNH 426457, east bank of Fly River, opposite Sturt Island, and AMNH 426458–426461, Lake Daviumbu. For a description of these collecting localities, see Rand and Brass (1940: 361–366).