Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 132-133

Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi Diamond

Melidectes rufocrissalis gilliardi Diamond, 1967: 9 (Camp 3, Mt. Karimui, Eastern Highlands District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea, 5100 feet).

Now Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi Diamond, 1969 . See Diamond, 1969: 55, Diamond, 1972: 391–396, Coates, 1990: 262–263, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613–614.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 786040 , adult female, collected at Camp 3, Mount Karimui, 5100 ft, 06.30S, 144.45E (PNG, 1984), Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, on 17 August 1965, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 2202).

COMMENTS: Diamond cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed his type series. Subsequently, M. r. gilliardi proved to be a junior primary homonym of Melidectes fuscus gilliardi Salomonsen, 1966 , and was replaced by Diamond (1969: 55) with Melidectes rufocrissalis thomasi . Both names share the same type (ICZN, 1999, Art. 57.2, Art. 72.7). Diamond’s type series comprised 14 males, 18 females, five sex? from Mount Karimui,

and six males, three females, and three sex? from Awande, all collected June–September 1965; the following paratypes came to AMNH: Awande , AMNH 809394–809397 , males ; Mount Karimui , AMNH 809398– 809400 , females, AMNH 809401–809404 , 809407–809409 , males, AMNH 809405 , 809406 , sex ?.