Sericornis spilodera wuroi Mayr, 1937

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 : 138

Sericornis spilodera wuroi Mayr

Sericornis spilodera wuroi Mayr, 1937: 15 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, south New Guinea).

Now Sericornis spilodera wuroi Mayr, 1937 . See Coates, 1990: 104, and Dickinson, 2003: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422042 , adult male collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 142.07E ( Deignan, 1964: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Papuan Expedition (no. 2754).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. There were four specimens in the type series, including the holotype ( Mayr and Rand, 1937: 122). The three paratypes are AMNH 422043–422045. Archbold and Rand (1935) provided a summary of this expedition.