Peneothello sigillatus hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard

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 : 260

Peneothello sigillatus hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard

Peneothello sigillatus hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952: 4 (Summit Camp, Mt. Hagen, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Peneothello sigillata hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952 . See Coates, 1990: 198, and Dickinson, 2003: 519.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348397 , [adult male], collected at the summit camp, 11,000 ft, Mount Hagen , 05.45S, 144.05E (Times Atlas), Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 July 1950, by E.T. Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Measurements were given for three males, one female, and four of unknown sex. The type series comprised 10 specimens ; the nine paratypes are three males, one female, and five of unknown sex, AMNH 705307– 705315 , all from 8200 ft and above on Mount Hagen , collected 2–20 July 1950. AMNH 705310 was sent to AM in 1953 and AMNH 705314 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s. For the results of Gilliard’s 1950 and 1952 expeditions to New Guinea, see Mayr and Gilliard (1954) .