Monarcha chalybeocephalus manumudari Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 213-214

Monarcha chalybeocephalus manumudari Rothschild and Hartert

Monarcha chalybeocephalus manumudari Rothschild and Hartert, 1915: 43 (Vulcan Island).

Now Myiagra alecto manumudari ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1915) . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 321.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 654439 , adult male, collected on Manam Island (5 Vulcan Island or Manumudar Island ), 04.05S, 145.05E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 4 December 1913, by Albert S. Meek (no. 6358). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had seven males and three females, giving the field numbers for each. Six of the nine paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 654440 (Meek no. 6372), 654441 (6482), 654442 (6429), 654443 (6486), 654444 (6485), and 654445 (6493) ; of these, AMNH 654441 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s. The three remaining paratypes bearing field numbers 6315, 6401, and 6464 were either ultimately not purchased from Meek by Rothschild or were exchanged by him before the collection came to AMNH .

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