Lichmera bougainvillei Mayr

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 : 45

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475743
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scientific name	Lichmera bougainvillei Mayr
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Lichmera bougainvillei Mayr View in CoL

Lichmera bougainvillei Mayr, 1932: 16 View in CoL (Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands).

Now Stresemannia bougainvillei ( Mayr, 1932) View in CoL . See Schodde, 1977: 82–83, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 630–631.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 221797 View Materials , adult male, collected on Bougainville Island , North Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea, on 13 January 1928, by Frederick P. Drowne (no. 232) on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements for 13 adult males, six immature males, six adult females, and two immature females. The 26 paratypes, all from Bougainville and collected between 31 December 1927 and 30 January 1928, are: AMNH 221792–221796 View Materials , 221798–221818 View Materials . Of these, I did not find AMNH 221792 in the collection ; AMNH 221793 View Materials was exchanged to ZMB ; and AMNH 221796 View Materials and 221811 were exchanged to ANSP .

The expedition base camp on Bougainville was at Kupei, 06.15S, 155.25E ( PNG, 1984), according to Drowne’s journal volume Q, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.