Ptilotis praecipua nigritergum Rothschild and

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Ptilotis praecipua nigritergum Rothschild and Hartert

Ptilotis praecipua nigritergum Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 35 (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).

Now Ptiloprora perstriata perstriata (De Vis, 1898) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 415, Diamond, 1969: 46–55, and Higgins et al., 2008: 658–659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696640, adult male, collected on Mount Goliath, 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 20 January 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5143). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, and later, in their report on the entire collection ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 515–516), listed three males and two females, giving Meek’s field numbers for each. The four paratypes, all collected on Mount Goliath in January 1911, are: AMNH 696639 (Meek’s no. 5449), male; AMNH 696641 (5450), male; AMNH 696642 (5089), female; AMNH 696643 (5103), female.