Sericornis nouhuysi monticola Mayr and 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 : 137

Sericornis nouhuysi monticola Mayr and Rand

Sericornis nouhuysi monticola Mayr and Rand, 1936: 246 (Mt. Albert Edward, Südwest Seite, 3680 m).

Now Sericornis nouhuysi monticola Mayr and Rand, 1936 . See Coates, 1990: 107.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420282 , adult female, collected on the southwest slope of Mount Albert Edward , 3680 m, 08.25S, 147.25E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Owen Stanley Range , border of Northern and Central Provinces, Papua New Guinea, on 25 June 1933, by Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Papuan Expedition (no. 670).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr and Rand (1937: 121) noted that six males and three females (including the type) were collected. The eight paratypes are AMNH 420257–420262, males, and AMNH 420281 and 420283, females. AMNH 420262 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. A summary of this expedition is provided by Archbold and Rand (1935).