Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale Rand, 1941

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 : 111

Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale Rand

Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale Rand, 1941: 15 (Balim River, 1600 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale Rand, 1941 . See Salomonsen, 1960c: 28, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 383–384.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 306379 , adult male, collected on the Baliem (5 Balim) River, 1600 m, 04.25S, 138.59E ( USBGN, 1982), Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 16 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8761).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Rand did not list his type series but gave measurements of eight males and seven females. Paratypes, all collected in December 1938 at the type locality, are: males, AMNH 343126–343132, females, AMNH 343133– AMNH 343139. AMNH 343134 was sent to MZB in May 1957.

The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. For a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942); and for an account of birds collected, see Rand (1942b).