Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 135

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476021
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scientific name	Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand
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Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand View in CoL

Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941: 14 View in CoL (Balim River, 1600 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Melidectes torquatus mixtus Rand, 1941 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 419, and Dickinson, 2003: 438.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 306378 View Materials , adult male, collected on the Baliem (5 Balim) River, 1600 m, 04.25S, 138.59E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 12 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8613). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of six males and three females, all specimens from the Baliem River area between 1600 and 2200 m. The eight paratypes are: Baliem River, 1600 m, AMNH 342780–342784 View Materials , males ; AMNH 342785 View Materials , 342786 View Materials , females ; Ibele (5 Bele) River, 18 km north of Lake Habbema, 2200 m, AMNH 342787 View Materials , female. AMNH 342785 View Materials was sent to MZB in May 1957. This was a joint expedition with the Netherlands Indies Government, also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. For a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942) .