Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard

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 : 121

Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard

Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952: 7 (Kegalsugl, south slope of Mt. Wilhelm, Bismarck Mountains, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Lonchura spectabilis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952 . See Mayr and Gilliard, 1954: 372; Mayr et al., 1968: 383; Diamond, 1972: 410–412; Coates, 1990: 342–344; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 376.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348398 , adult male, collected at Keglsugl (5 Kegalsugl ), ± 8000 ft, 05.50S, 145.06N (J. Mandeville, personal commun.), south slope of Mount Wilhelm , Bismarck Mountains , boundary of Western Highlands, Simbu, and Madang provinces, Papua New Guinea (5 Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 17 June 1950, by E. Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range was given as the Wahgi and Simbu (5 Chimbu) valleys from 5200 to ± 8000 ft and ‘‘presumably’’ birds from the Sarawaget and Herzog mountains . These latter were not examined and are not included in the type series. Mayr and Gilliard (1954: 372) listed a number of specimens that had been examined (not necessarily collected) with respect to molt, but this 1954 publication covered specimens collected by Gilliard in both 1950 and 1952. Only those collected in 1950 are part of the type series of wahgiensis. Paratypes are: Nondugl, AMNH 706012–706016 , males, collected in April and May 1950 ; Mount Wilhelm , AMNH 706017 , female, collected 17 June 1950 ; Base Camp, Tomba, Mount Hagen , AMNH 706018 , sex?, 22 July 1950. This last specimen was sent to AM in 1953 .