Munia molucca vagans Meise

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 115

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/832.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4627722
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scientific name	Munia molucca vagans Meise
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Munia molucca vagans Meise, 1929: 440 (Binongka (Tukang besi-Inseln)).

Now Lonchura molucca (Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL . See Mayr, et al., 1968: 375; White and Bruce, 1986: 422; Dickinson, 2003: 734; and Payne, 2010: 367.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721121 View Materials , female, collected on Binongka (5 Binungku, as on label) Island, 05.57S, 124.02E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 490), Tukangbesi Islands , Indonesia, on 12 December 1901, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 4243). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Meise gave Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype and noted that he had studied about 10 additional specimens from the Tukangbesi Islands in the Rothschild Collection. The following eight paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection: Tomia Island, AMNH 721117 View Materials , male ; Wantjee Island , AMNH 721118 View Materials , female ; Binongka Island , AMNH 721119 View Materials , 721120 View Materials , 721122– 721124 View Materials , two males, three females ; Kalidupa Island , AMNH 721125 View Materials , female, all collected in December 1901 and January 1902 by Kühn .