Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903

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Myzomela kuehni Rothschild

Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903: 42 (Wetter) .

Now Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, 1903 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 401, and Higgins et al., 2008: 649.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692692 , adult male, collected on Wetar (5 Wetter) Island, 07.48S, 126.18E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 5 October 1902, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5693). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave Kühn’s original field number of the holotype and said that he sent nine specimens. Paratypes are: AMNH 692688– 692691, 692693–692696, four males, one immature male, and three females, collected on Wetar in September and October 1902 by Kühn. Hartert (1904a) prepared a report on Kühn’s collections from Wetar, Romang, Kisar, Leti, and Moa islands.