Poecilodryas leucops nigro-orbitalis Rothschild and 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 : 251

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
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scientific name	Poecilodryas leucops nigro-orbitalis Rothschild and Hartert
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Poecilodryas leucops nigro-orbitalis Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 497 (Snow Mountains) .

Now Tregellasia leucops nigroorbitalis ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1913) View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 519.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608336 About AMNH , adult male, collected in the Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 20 October 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4862). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and listed an additional two males and three females in the type series. The paratypes are: males, AMNH 608337 About AMNH (Meek no. 4861) and 608338 (4881) ; females, AMNH 608339 About AMNH (4882), 608340 (4906), and 608341 (4902). The last specimen was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .

‘‘Most of Meek’s collections were made on the Setekwa River, a small tributary of the Oetakwa River, and at elevations from 2500 to 3000 ft …’’ ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 473). The Setekwa River is at 04.54S, 137.19E (USBGN, 1982a).