Epimachus meyeri megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard

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 : 101

Epimachus meyeri megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard

Epimachus meyeri megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 10 (Gebroeders Mountains, Weyland Range, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Epimachus meyeri albicans (van Oort, 1915) . See Mayr, 1962d: 191; Gilliard, 1969: 141–146; Cracraft, 1992: 20–21; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 366–376; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 479.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677998 , adult male, collected on Brothers (= Gebroeders) Mountain , 6000–7000 ft, 03.55S, 136.08E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 567), Pegunungan Kobowre (= Weyland Range), Papua Province (formerly Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 24 July 1930, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 216). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr and Gilliard cited the AMNH number of the holotype and mentioned females and young males. Fred Shaw Mayer’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Rothschild and by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and his three specimens of this form were divided between the two collections. The holotype had originally been part of the Rothschild Collection share and had come to AMNH with that collection in 1932. The specimens that were part of the original AMNH share were AMNH 302945, immature male, 22 July 1930 and AMNH 302946, female, 28 July 1930, Shaw Mayer numbers 212 and 252 respectively; they are both paratypes of megarhynchus as is a single specimen collected by Georg Stein, AMNH 302367, female, Mount Kunupi, Weyland Mountains, 4 October 1931, Stein no. 2934. Shaw Mayer’s collection was reported on by Rothschild (1931) and Stein’s by Hartert et al. (1936).

Cracraft (1992: 20) synonymized megarhynchus with albicans, and later authors have agreed.