Pteridophora alberti bürgersi Rothschild

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 105-106

Pteridophora alberti bürgersi Rothschild

Pteridophora alberti bürgersi Rothschild, 1931: 253 (Schrader Berg, Sepik River District).

Now Pteridophora alberti Meyer, 1894 . See Mayr, 1962d: 197; Gilliard, 1969: 184–192; Diamond, 1972: 339–340; Coates, 1990: 484–486; Cracraft, 1992: 29–30; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 305–314; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 473.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 678693 , female, collected on Schrader Mountain , 05.00S, 144.05E (PNG General Reference Map, 1984), Schrader Mountains , East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, on 11 June 1913, by Joseph Bürgers (no. 2064). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild cited Bürgers’ number of the holotype in the original description. Only the single specimen was in the Rothschild Collection when this form was named; it had been exchanged from ZMB ( Rothschild, 1921a: 281), where the Bürgers collection is housed. Rothschild does not make it clear whether or not he saw the other two female specimens; the male was unknown.

Most recent authors consider Pteridophora alberti monotypic.