Neositta papuensis alba Rand, 1940

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 : 91

Neositta papuensis alba Rand

Neositta papuensis alba Rand, 1940: 10 (altitude 1800 meters, 15 km. southwest Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Daphoenositta papuensis alba (Rand, 1940) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 429–430, Dickinson, 2003: 473, Noske, 2007a: 640–641, and Christidis and Boles, 2008: 192.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305659 , adult male, collected 15 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 1800 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg ) River , Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 24 January 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson. From the third Archbold Expedition to New Guinea.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series comprised four male specimens collected on the same day. The three paratypes are: AMNH 342332, 342333, and 342334. AMNH 342333 was sent to MZB in 1957.

Rand (1942b) published a report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition, and Archbold et al. (1942) published a general summary of the expedition. This expedition was also known as the Indisch-Americaansche Expeditie, a joint expedition with the government of the Netherlands East Indies.

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