Poecilodryas leucops mayri 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 : 250-251

Poecilodryas leucops mayri Hartert

Poecilodryas leucops mayri Hartert, 1930b: 67 (Wondiwoi) .

Now Tregellasia leucops mayri (Hartert, 1930) . See Dickinson, 2003: 519.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608375 , adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains , 02.45S, 134.35E ( USBGN, 1982a), on the peninsula jutting into Teluk Cenderawasih (5 Geelvink Bay ) east of Wandamen Bay , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 14 July 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1526). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but did not say how many specimens he examined. Mayr’s expedition was supported by Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH, and the collection was divided between the two, with a subset sent to MZB ( Hartert, 1930a: 19). Part of the collection came directly to AMNH, and the rest came later with the Rothschild Collection. Paratypes are: males, AMNH 294060–294062, 608376, and 608377. Of these, AMNH 608376 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s.

Mayr (1930a: 24) landed at Wasior, 02.38S, 134.27E (Times Atlas), and went into the Wondiwoi Mountains from there.