Petroica archboldi Rand, 1940

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Petroica archboldi Rand

Petroica archboldi Rand, 1940a: 5 (Mt. Wilhelmina, altitude 4100 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland New Guinea).

Now Petroica archboldi Rand, 1940 . See Rand and Gilliard, 1967: 409, and Dickinson, 2003: 521.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305641 , adult male, collected on Gunung Trikora (5 Mount Wilhelmina ), 4100 m, 04.15S, 138.41E ( Times Atlas ), Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 18 September 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold New Guinea Expedition.

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had 22 specimens. The 21 paratypes are AMNH 341297–341317. Of these, AMNH 341298 was exchanged to BMNH in 1967, AMNH 341301 and 341310 were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s, AMNH 341313 was sent to MZB in 1957, and AMNH 341316 was exchanged to ANSP. I did not find AMNH 341312.

See Archbold et al. (1942) for a summary of the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition.