Epimachus meyeri bloodi 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 bloodi Mayr and Gilliard

Epimachus meyeri bloodi Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 10 (Mt. Hagen, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Epimachus meyeri bloodi Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Mayr, 1962d: 191; Gilliard, 1969: 141– 146; Diamond, 1972: 328; Coates, 1990: 445– 448; Cracraft, 1992: 20; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 366–376; Frith and Frith, 2009b: 479–480.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348211 , adult male, collected near base camp, Mount Hagen , 8300 ft, 05.52S, 144.13E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569), Western Highlands Province (formerly Central Highlands), Papua New Guinea (formerly in Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 15 July 1950, by E.Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: Mayr and Gilliard gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements for five males and five females, the range being Mount Hagen. Specimens collected on Mount Kubor, Mount Wilhelm, and at Nondugl are not included. Mount Hagen specimens, collected in 1950, are paratypes of bloodi: AMNH 705512–705525, 788298– 788306, 802648, six adult males, four immature males, one male juvenile, 10 females, one female?, two sex?, all collected at Base Camp, 8200–8300 ft, 1–24 July 1950, by E.T. Gilliard. Of these 705518 and 705521 were sent to AM in 1958.

Mayr and Gilliard (1954) reported on Gillard’s 1950 and 1952 expeditions, but only the Mount Hagen specimens collected in 1950 were included in the description of bloodi.