Gerygone rosseliana 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 : 175

Gerygone rosseliana Hartert

Gerygone rosseliana Hartert, 1899a: 79 (Rossel Island).

Now Gerygone magnirostris rosseliana Hartert, 1899 . See Meise, 1931: 338, Mayr, 1986b: 451, and Coates, 1990: 117.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 606621 , adult male, collected on Rossel Island, 11.20S. 154.10E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 February 1898, by collectors for A.S. Meek (no. 1382). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but noted that three males and one female were collected. Later, Hartert (1920: 493) listed Meek specimen number 1382 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. The three paralectotypes are: AMNH 606620 and 606622, males ; and AMNH 606630 , female .