Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert, 1930

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

Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert

Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert, 1930b: 78 (Ifaar, on the Sentani Lakes).

Now Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert, 1930 . See Schodde, 1982: 101, and Coates, 1990: 96.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602750 , adult female, collected at Ifaar , 02.34S, 140.31E ( USBGN, 1982a), Sentani Lake , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 26 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2622). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype. The type series comprised 24 specimens, including the holotype. Mayr’s fieldwork in former Dutch New Guinea was supported jointly by Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH. After the collection was reported on by Hartert, it was divided between the two museums. With purchase of the Rothschild Collection by AMNH, Mayr’s collection was brought together again. Twenty-one of the 23 paratypes (all that were cataloged) are now present at AMNH: AMNH 293910–293920, 602744–602749, and 602751–602754. In some cases a small representative series from Mayr’s collection was sent to Stresemann in ZMB, and perhaps the other two paratypes are there.