Lophorina minor latipennis 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 : 103-104

Lophorina minor latipennis Rothschild

Lophorina minor latipennis Rothschild, 1907a: 92 (Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea).

Now Lophorina superba latipennis Rothschild, 1907 . See Hartert, 1919: 128; Mayr, 1962d: 194; Gilliard, 1969: 163–170; Coates, 1990: 464– 468; Cracraft, 1992: 24–26; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 345–356; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 476– 477.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 678271 , adult male, collected in the Rawlinson Mountains , 06.32S, 147.17E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 570), Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (formerly in German New Guinea), December 1905 – January 1906, by Carl Wahnes. From the Rothschild Collection (no. 90506).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild gave a number for the type, which is a modification of the date of collection. The Rothschild Collection was not cataloged. This number has been written on the reverse of Wahnes’ label, but it is not his field number.

There are five additional undated adult male specimens from the Rothschild Collection that were collected in the Rawlinson Mountains by Carl Wahnes’ collectors, AMNH 678271–678276, but I have been unable to find when they came into Rothschild’s possession.

Frith and Beehler (1998: 348) mistakenly listed the type of L. s. minor Ramsay, 1885 , as held by AMNH. The type is in the Australian Museum, AM 0.32935 ( Longmore, 1991: 31).