Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr, 1936

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 : 112

Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr

Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr, 1936: 6 (Goodenough Island).

Now Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum Mayr, 1936 . See Salomonsen, 1960c: 29, and Cheke and Mann, 200b: 383–384.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450786 , adult male, collected in the mountains of Goodenough Island , 09.20S, 150.15E (PNG, 1984), D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 April 1913, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5581). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of violaceum as Fergusson , Goodenough , and Dobu islands. Paratypes are specimens from the Rothschild Collection collected by Meek and from the Whitney South Sea Expedition taken on these islands: Goodenough Island, Whitney Expedition, November 1928, AMNH 224082 , 224084 ; Goodenough Island , Meek, April– May 1913, AMNH 698084–698088 ; December 1896, AMNH 698089 ; Fergusson Island , Whitney Expedition, November 1928, AMNH 224064 , 224064 bis, 224072–224081 ; Fergusson Island , Meek, September 1894 ,

AMNH 698090–698096 ; Dobu Island , Whitney Expedition, December 1928, AMNH 330156 , 330157 . Of these, AMNH 224074 was exchanged to ZMUC in May 1959 .

Dicaeum geelvinkianum rosseli Rothschild and