Sericornis pusilla Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 139-140

Sericornis pusilla Rothschild and Hartert

Sericornis pusilla Rothschild and Hartert, 1903a: 228 (Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, 2000– 4000 ft.).

Now Sericornis arfakianus ( Salvadori, 1876) . See Mayr, 1986b: 425, Coates, 1990: 110, and Dickinson, 2003: 446.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601697 , unsexed, Mount Gayata , 2000–4000 ft, Richardson Range, southeastern Papua New Guinea, undated. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert had a single specimen (no. 1137, collector’s no.?). It had been purchased from McIlwraith and McEacharn in 1898 and appeared to them to be of Emil Weiske’s preparation.

According to Mayr (1941: 225), Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, is in the Owen Stanley Mountains. The late W.S. Peckover (personal commun.) equated Mt. Gayata with Mt. Totola, 09.05S, 147.28 E, Central Province.