Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki Diamond, 1967

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 : 122

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4619586
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scientific name	Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki Diamond
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Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki Diamond View in CoL

Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki Diamond, 1967: 14 View in CoL (Karimui, Eastern Highlands District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea; 3650 feet).

Now Lonchura spectabilis gajduseki Diamond, 1967 View in CoL . See Mayr et al., 1968: 383; Diamond, 1972: 410–412; Coates, 1990: 342–344; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 376.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 786041 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Karimui , 3650 ft, 06.30S, 144.50E (PNG General Reference Map, 1984), Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (5 Eastern Highlands District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 3 July 1965, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 715). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Diamond gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; he had six adult males (including the type), four adult females, and one immature sex?. An additional two adult males, three immatures sex? and one juvenile sex? were prepared as skeletons. The following paratypes are in AMNH: Karimui, AMNH 809544–809547 About AMNH , four females, AMNH 809548–809550 About AMNH , three males, AMNH 809551 About AMNH , immature, sex?, AMNH skeleton no. 6781, male, all collected in July 1965 .

Most authors have recognized gajduseki; Payne (2010: 376) synonymized it with wahgiensis. See Diamond 1972: 410–412) for discussion.

References

Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea, vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications Pty., 576 pp., photographs.

Diamond, J. M. 1967. New subspecies and records of birds from the Karimui Basin, New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 2284: 1 - 17.

Diamond, J. M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 12. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 438 pp.

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.

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.