Oreostruthus fuliginosus pallidus Rand, 1940

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 101

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4611923
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scientific name	Oreostruthus fuliginosus pallidus Rand
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Oreostruthus fuliginosus pallidus Rand View in CoL

Oreostruthus fuliginosus pallidus Rand, 1940: 14 View in CoL (Lake Habbema, 3225 m, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Oreostruthus fuliginosus pallidus Rand, 1940 View in CoL . See Mayr et al., 1968: 356; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 351–352.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305647 About AMNH , sex? [5 adult male], collected at Danau (5 Lake ) Habbema , 3225 m., 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982), Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains ), Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 17 August 1938, by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition (no. 3693). View Materials GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description and eight specimens in addition to the type were listed. I found only seven of these cataloged and in the collection. Paratypes, all collected in 1938 and all females: Lake Habbema , 3225 m, AMNH 343492 About AMNH , 5 About AMNH August ; 9 km northeast of Lake Habbema , 2700 m, AMNH 343493 About AMNH , 19 About AMNH October ; 7 km northeast of Wilhelmina summit, 3600 m, AMNH 343494 About AMNH , 343495 About AMNH , 16–19 About AMNH September ; Ibele (5 Bele) River, 18 km north of Lake Habbema, 2200 m, AMNH 343496–343498 About AMNH , 24 About AMNH November–2 December. Of these, AMNH 343498 About AMNH was sent to MZB on 7 May 1957. The specimen that was not found, also a female and a paratype, was collected 9 km northeast of Lake Habbema on 25 October 1938 .

This, the third Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, was made jointly with Netherlands Indies personnel and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. Archbold et al. (1942) published a summary of the expedition, with itinerary and maps.