Meliphaga virescens intermedia Mayr and Rand

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 : 84

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475855
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scientific name	Meliphaga virescens intermedia Mayr and Rand
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Meliphaga virescens intermedia Mayr and Rand, 1935: 15 (Samarai Island, Papua).

Now Lichenostomus versicolor intermedius ( Mayr and Rand, 1935) View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 278–279, Dickinson, 2003: 432, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 601.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 330252 View Materials , adult male, collected on Samarai Island , 10.36S, 150.39E (Times Atlas), Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 July 1929, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand , in the original description, cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed their type series of nine specimens. The eight paratypes are: Doini Island, AMNH 295688–295691 View Materials , three males, one female, 7 November–2 December 1920, J.T. Zimmer ; Samarai Island , AMNH 330253–330256 View Materials , two males, two females, 5 July 1929, H. Hamlin .

Higgins et al. (2008:601) tentatively synonymized intermedia with sonoroides.