Sericornis virgatus boreonesioticus Diamond, 1969

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 : 135-136

Sericornis virgatus boreonesioticus Diamond

Sericornis virgatus boreonesioticus Diamond, 1969: 21 (Mt. Somoro, Torricelli Mountains, Sepik District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Sericornis magnirostra boreonesioticus Diamond, 1969 . See Coates, 1990: 105, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 174.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789764 , adult male, collected on Mount Somoro, 4450 ft, Torricelli Mountains , 03.25S. 142.15E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 July 1966, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 192).

COMMENTS: Diamond cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Forty paratypes came to AMNH from Mt. Somoro and Mt. Nibo (Torricelli Mountains), Mt. Menawa (Bewani Mountains) and Mt. Turu (Prince Alexander Mountains): AMNH 829346–829385.

In del Hoyo et al. (2007: 584), boreonesioticus is considered a subspecies of S. virgatus .