Petroica bivittata caudata Rand, 1940

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Petroica bivittata caudata Rand

Petroica bivittata caudata Rand, 1940a: 5 (9 km. northeast of Lake Habbema, altitude 2850 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland New Guinea).

Now Petroica bivittata caudata Rand, 1940 . See Rand and Gilliard, 1967: 408–409, and Dickinson, 2003: 521.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305649 , adult male, collected 9 km northeast of Lake Habbema , 2850 m, 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982a), Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 25 October 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold New Guinea Expedition (no. 7628).

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of two males and two females. Paratypes, all from Lake Habbema , are: AMNH 305791 , female, 5 August 1938 ; AMNH 341295 , male, 6 August 1938 ; and AMNH 341296 , female, 5 November 1938. AMNH 305791 was mount- ed for exhibit in the Snow Mountains diorama in the AMNH Whitney Hall of Oceanic Birds ; AMNH 341296 was sent to MZB in 1957 .

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