Munia vana Hartert

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 : 121

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612032
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scientific name	Munia vana Hartert
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Munia vana Hartert

Munia vana Hartert, 1930b: 42 (Kofo (Anggi gidji)).

Now Lonchura vana (Hartert, 1930) View in CoL . See Mayr et al., 1968: 382; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 373.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 294415 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Kofo , Anggi Gita (5 Anggi Gidji), 01.23S, 133.58E ( USBGN, 1982), Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 June 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1083). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: As explained above, Mayr’s 1928 expedition was jointly sponsored. This holotype was part of Sanford’s share of the collection and came directly to AMNH. It bears an AMNH type label and was individually designated in the original description. In the type series there were also three male specimens and one juvenile, which are paratypes: Kofo, Anggi Gita, AMNH 294413 About AMNH , juvenile male, AMNH 294414 About AMNH , 721263 About AMNH , 721264 About AMNH , adult males, all collected on 11 June 1928 by E. Mayr. The first two were part of Sanford’s share ; the last two came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection .

See Hartert (1930a: 18–19) and Mayr (1930: 20–26) for further information on Mayr’s expedition.

References

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Hartert, E. 1930 b. III. List of the birds collected by Ernst Mayr. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 27 - 128.

Hartert, E. 1930 a. I. On a collection of birds made by Dr. Ernst Mayr in northern Dutch New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 18 - 19.

Mayr, E. 1930. My Dutch New Guinea expedition, 1928. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 20 - 26.

Mayr, E. [Australo-Papuan]., R. A. Paynter, Jr. [Oriental], and M. A. Traylor [African]. 1968. Family Estrildidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 14: 306 - 390. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 433 pp.

Payne, R. B. 2010. Family Estrildidae (waxbills), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 299 - 377. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., photographs.