Pitohui cristata kodonophonos Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 59-60

Pitohui cristata kodonophonos Mayr

Pitohui cristata kodonophonos Mayr, 1931c: 676 (terra typica: Aroariver).

Now Pitohui cristatus kodonophonos Mayr, 1931 . See Coates, 1990: 232–234, Boles, 2007: 435, and Dumbacher et al., 2008.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 656544 ( Meek no. A 430), male, 18 March 1903 ; AMNH 656545 (A 269), male, 22 February 1903 ; AMNH 656546 (A 182), female, 2 February 1903 ; AMNH 656547 (A 265), female, 21 February 1903 ; AMNH 656548 (A 408), female, 12 March 1903 ; AMNH 656549 (A 450), female, 22 March 1903, all from Avera , upper Aroa River, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, collected by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: In naming kodonophonos, Mayr called attention to Hartert’s (1930b: 61) mistakenly calling southeastern New Guinea specimens of Pitohui cristata by Ramsay’s name P. cristata brunneiceps , which is, in fact, a nominal subspecies of Pitohui kirhocephalus . Mayr did not desig-

nate a type, stating only that the ‘‘terra typica’’ of kodonophonos was the Aroa River. Rothschild and Hartert (1907: 470) had listed six specimens of P. cristata from the Aroa River, giving Meek’s field numbers ; and those six specimens, which came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, are the syntypes listed above. They had not been recognized as types previously ; two of them, AMNH 656544 and AMNH 656547 , were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

The late W.S. Peckover had researched the location of Avera and thought it to be at ca. 08.38S, 147.05E, very near to Aveva at 08.40S, 147.05E.