Poecilodryas nigriventris 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 : 261

Poecilodryas nigriventris Hartert

Poecilodryas nigriventris Hartert, 1907a: 51 (Lower Mombare River, near the north coast of New Guinea).

Now Peneothello bimaculata vicaria (De Vis, 1892) . See Mayr, 1986d: 579, Coates, 1990: 198–199, and Dickinson, 2003: 519.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 608240 , adult male, collected on the Lower Mambare (5 Mombare ) River, 08.30S, 147.45E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Northern Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 May 1906, by Albert S. Meek (no. A.2813). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but did not say how many specimens he examined. Paratypes are the two additional males Meek obtained on the lower Mambare on the same day: AMNH 608241 (Meek no. A.2815) and AMNH 608242 (A.2814). The latter specimen was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s.