Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild

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 : 133

Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild

Melirrhophetes belfordi joiceyi Rothschild, 1921: 285 (Mt. Kunupi, 6,000 ft., Weyland Mts.).

Now Melidectes belfordi joiceyi ( Rothschild, 1921) . See Gilliard, 1959, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693815 , [adult male], wing [in molt]: 132 mm, collected on Mount Kunupi , 6000 ft, Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains , 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, in November–December 1920, by the Pratt brothers (no. 579). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild cited the Pratt number of the holotype in the original description and said that the type series comprised five males and two females, with inclusive wing measurements given. Five of these specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection ; the four paratypes in AMNH, all bearing the same data as the holotype, are: AMNH 693812 , [male, 129 mm, worn] ; AMNH 693813 , [female, 112 mm] ; AMNH 693814 , [male, 134 mm] ; AMNH 693816 , female, on original label, 113 mm. None of the specimens other than the holotype had a collector’s number on the label. The two paratypes that did not come to AMNH bear the same data as the above and should have measurements in the range given for males ; one of these is in RMNH ( Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 28).