Malurus alboscapulatus balim Rand

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 : 102-103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777480
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scientific name	Malurus alboscapulatus balim Rand
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Malurus alboscapulatus balim Rand, 1941: 5 (Balim River, 1600 meters altitude, Snow Mts., Netherland New Guinea).

Now Malurus alboscapulatus lorentzi van Oort, 1909 View in CoL . See Schodde, 1982: 100.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305653 About AMNH , adult female, collected on the Balim River , 1600 m, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 14 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, A.L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson. From the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8698).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Measurements were given for 23 specimens, including the holotype, from the Balim and Ibele (5 Bele) rivers ; however, 27 specimens were cataloged. The 26 paratypes are AMNH 340569–340594 About AMNH ; of these, AMNH 340569 About AMNH and 340587 were exchanged with FMNH, and AMNH 340576 About AMNH and 340582 were sent to MZB. Mayr (1986a: 394) recognized M. a. balim .

The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands Indies authorities, known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. The Balim River camp is shown at ca. 04.20S, 139.00E on the map and is described in Archbold et al. (1942: 225, and map 1).