Toxorhamphus poliopterus septentrionalis Mayr and Rand

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 : 46

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scientific name	Toxorhamphus poliopterus septentrionalis Mayr and Rand
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Toxorhamphus poliopterus septentrionalis Mayr and Rand, 1935: 14 (Huambon [5 Hompua], altitude 3000 feet, Saruwaged Mountains, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea).

Now Toxorhamphus poliopterus poliopterus Sharpe, 1882 View in CoL ). See Diamond, 1972: 353–355, Coates, 1990: 312–313, Dickinson, 2003: 452, and Gregory, 2008: 338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 267876 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Hompua, 06.21S, 147.43E GoogleMaps

( USBGN, 1956), 3000 ft, Saruwaget (5 Saruwaged) Mountains, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, on 12 February 1929, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 1010).

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, noted that they had one male and three female specimens collected by Beck, and also included three specimens collected by Mayr (1931c: 657) on the Huon Peninsula. Paratypes in AMNH are: three females, AMNH 267877 About AMNH (Beck’s no. 1445), Sevia, 18 March 1929 ; AMNH 267878 About AMNH (1663), Zakaheme, 8 April 1929 ; AMNH 367879 About AMNH (1742), Hompua, 9 April 1929. The paratypes collected by Mayr are in ZMB .

Both Diamond (1972: 353) and Coates (1990: 313) considered septentrionalis doubtfully distinct; Dickinson (2003: 452) and Gregory (2008: 338) did not recognize it. The genus Toxorhamphus is now included in the Melanocharitidae .