Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum Mayr

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 : 205

Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum Mayr

Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum Mayr, 1955: 31 (Lihir Island, Lihir Group).

Now Monarcha chrysomela whitneyorum Mayr, 1955 . See Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 313.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 336052 , adult male, collected on Lihir Island, 03.10S, 152.35E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Lihir Group, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 17 September 1934, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 45793).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 336046–336051 and 336053–336065.

On Lihir Island, William and Esther Coultas had a base camp at ‘‘Landolowit’’ (now spelled Londolovit), a plantation owned by P.L. Kyllert at ca. 03.02S, 152.37E (W. Coultas, Vol. Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH).