Microeca flavigaster tarara Rand, 1940

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 : 240

Microeca flavigaster tarara Rand

Microeca flavigaster tarara Rand, 1940b: 3 (Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, Western Division, Territory of Papua, New Guinea).

Now Microeca flavigaster tarara Rand, 1940 . See Coates, 1990: 180–181.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 426791 , adult male, collected at Tarara , ca. 08.50S, 141.50E (see map in Rand and Brass, 1940), Wassi Kussa River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 26 December 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and George H.H. Tate on the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 6629).

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of eight male and three female specimens from south New Guinea. The paratypes are: Tarara, AMNH 426789, 426790, and 426792–426797; and Penzara, AMNH 426798 and 426799. Of these, AMNH 426793 and 426796 were exchanged with FMNH in the early 1960s. I did not find AMNH 426795 in the collection. Details of the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition are given by Rand and Brass (1940) and Rand (1942a).