Parotia carolae chalcothorax Stresemann, 1934

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Zootaxa 1072 (1), pp. 1-25 : 13

Parotia carolae chalcothorax Stresemann, 1934

Stresemann, E. (1934): Vier neue Unterarten von Paradiesvögeln. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 42(5): 145 [144–147].

Now Parotia carolae chalcothorax Stresemann, 1934 . See Mayr 1962b: 195, Frith and Beehler 1998: 300, Dickinson 2003: 516; Cracraft 1992: 28 upgraded the taxon to species level.

HOLOTYPE: ZMB 30.3290 . Adult male. Loc.: Doormanspad­Bivak, 1410m [Doorman Top, Papua Province, Indonesia, 3°30' S, 137°9' E]. Date: 3 November 1920. Coll.: W. C. van Heurn No. 225. Ex. coll. Zoological Museum Buitenzorg [donation in 1930]. Iris: Sulphur yellow. Bill: black. Feet: black. Testes: small. Stomach content: berries and other small fruits. [Skin; data on field label].

PARATYPE: ZMB 30.3291 . Immature male. Loc.: Doormanspad­Bivak, 1410m. Date: 28 October 1920. Coll.: W. C. van Heurn No. 229. Ex. coll. Zoological Museum Buitenzorg [donation in 1930]. Iris: [not given]. Bill: black. Feet: greyish black. [Skin; data on field label] .

COMMENTS: Further paratypes (two adult males, one immature male and two females) are in the Zoological Museum Buitenzorg ( Hartert 1932: 483; cited in Stresemann's original description). For details on the collecting trip and for observations on and collecting of birds of paradise see Heurn (1921a: 11–28; 1921b: 33–38). Frith and Beehler (1998: 300) erroneously cited a seven­digit ZMB registration number. Kleinschmidt's (1897) types of P. c. berlepschi were erroneously attributed to the ZMB by Frith and Beehler (1998) but are actually among Berlepsch's collection in the SMF, a juvenile male, SMF 64277, and an adult male, SMF 64276, both acquired from the Renesse van Duivenbode family of Ternate in 1895.