Phonygammus diamondi Cracraft

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 : 95

Phonygammus diamondi Cracraft

Phonygammus diamondi Cracraft, 1992: 12 (Awande, near Okapa, Eastern Highlands District, Papua New Guinea).

Now Phonygammus keraudrenii diamondi Cracraft, 1992 . See Diamond, 1972: 326–327; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 229–240; Dickinson, 2003: 516; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 809310 , adult male, collected at Awande , 6300 ft, near Okapa, 06.34S, 145.45E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 570), Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, on 15 June 1965, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 54).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Cracraft gave the AMNH number of the holotype and included in his type series five specimens collected by Diamond at Awande and one from the Kratke Range. The five paratypes are: AMNH 809308 (Diamond no. 1958), female, Camp 1, Mount Karimui, 4200 ft, 11 August 1965 ; AMNH 809309 (182), female, Awande , 6300 ft., near Okapa, 17 June 1965 ; AMNH 309311 (388), male, Okasa , 2600 ft, near Okapa, 23 June 1965 ; AMNH 309312 (1976), male, Camp 1, Mount Karimui, 4200 ft, 12 August 1965 ; AMNH 784702 , male, Kassam Pass , Kratke Range, 1350 ft, 31 October 1959, by Hobart M. Van Deusen ( VD59-9 ) .

Described as a phylogenetic species by Cracraft, P. diamondi was included as a subspecies of Manucodia keraudrenii by Frith and Beehler (1998: 232–233) and Frith and Frith (2009: 464) and as a subspecies of Phonygammus keraudrenii by Dickinson (2003: 526).