Aethomyias spilodera granti Hartert

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 138

Aethomyias spilodera granti Hartert

Aethomyias spilodera granti Hartert, 1930b: 85 (Snow Mountains, 2,000 feet).

Now Sericornis spilodera granti (Hartert, 1930) . See Mayr, 1986b: 423, and Dickinson, 2003: 445.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601569 , adult male, collected in the Pegunungan Maoke (5 Snow Mountains), 2000 ft, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 25 August 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4636). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. While the collecting locality on the label is ‘‘Snow Mountains’’, Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473) said that Meek’s collection was made on the Setekwa River, 04.54S, 137.19E (USBGN, 1982a), a tributary of the Oetakwa (5 Utakwa) River. Although Hartert did not indicate how many specimens he had, according to Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 501, under Aethomyias spilodera guttata ), the type series comprised four adult and one juvenile male specimen, for which they gave Meek’s field numbers. The four paratypes are: AMNH 601568 (Meek no. 4635), immature male; AMNH 601570 (4633) and 601571 (4617), males; and AMNH 601573 (4634), female (not male). AMNH 601572 (4576), young male, which was only identified as Sericornis ? in Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 504), is not considered a paratype.