Edolisoma amboinense admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 67-68

Edolisoma amboinense admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert

Edolisoma amboinense admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, 1914d: 108 (Manus).

Now Coracina tenuirostris admiralitatis (Rothschild and Hartert, 1914) . See Coates, 1990: 44, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562635 , adult male, collected on Manus Island , Admiralty Islands, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 September 1913, for Albert S. Meek (no. 5962). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meek’s number was cited for the type in the original description. Besides the holotype, three adult males, two immature males, and four females were collected ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1914c: 296). These paratypes are AMNH 562636–562644.

Meek had been planning a collecting trip to Manus, but fell ill shortly before departure and sent ‘‘his party’’ to do the collecting ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1914c: 282). Judging by the handwriting on the field label, at least one of this party was one of the Eichhorn brothers, Meek’s brothers­in­law, who frequently assisted him in the field.

Rothschild and Hartert (1914c: 282) noted that the collecting party ‘‘camped close to the German settlement, in the neighbourhood of which the collection was made... ’’. In the draft annual report of German New Guinea for 1913–1914 ( Sack and Clark, 1980: 61), the following appears: ‘‘An Australian spent the period from September to October near the Imperial Station, engaged in collecting birds and butterflies for the Tring Museum (Rothschild) in London.’’ The Manus Station was opened in October 1911, on Seeadler Harbor ( Firth, 1983: 103), and is now known as Lorengau, 02°01′S, 147°15′E (Times Atlas).

Coracina tenuirostris ultima Mayr Coracina tenuirostris ultima Mayr, 1955: 11 (Lihir Island, Lihir group).

Now Coracina tenuirostris ultima Mayr, 1955 . See

Coates, 1990: 44, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 335989 , adult female, collected on Lihir Island, 03°10′S, 152°35′E ( Papua New Guinea General Reference Map, 1984), Lihir Islands , New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 1 November 1934, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 46294).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the type was cited in the original description, and Mayr (1955: 12) gave measurements for 12 males and 8 females, in addition to the holotype, from Lihir Island, and Masabiet (= Masahet) Island, Lihir Group, and Boang Island, Tanga Group. There are 11 males (one in female plumage and perhaps not measured), AMNH 335622–335624, 335987, 335988, and 335990–335995, and eight females, AMNH 335625–335627 and 335996–336000, from those three islands collected by the Whitney expedition, which are therefore paratypes. There are two additional males from Tabar Island, Tabar Group, AMNH 335514 and 335515, and one additional female from Malie Island, Lihir Group, AMNH 335986, also collected on the Whitney expedition. I think these may have been part of the original type series as well.

Coultas (vol. Y, pp. 174, 202, unpublished journal, Whitney South Sea Expedition, in the Department of Ornithology Archives, AMNH) stated that on the date the holotype was collected, he and his wife were at a place called Landolowit in Lihir Bay, near the plantation of a Mr. Kyllert and across the bay from a Government rest house.

Edolisoma amboinense rooki Rothschild and Hartert

Edolisoma amboinense rooki Rothschild and Hartert, 1914d: 107 (Rook Island, west of New Britain).

Now Coracina tenuirostris rooki (Rothschild and Hartert, 1914) . See Coates, 1990: 44, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 389.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 562648 , adult male, collected on Umboi (= Rook) Island, 05°40′S, 148°00′E ( Papua New Guinea General Reference Map , 1984), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 26 July 1913, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5831). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meek’s field number of the type was cited in the original description. In addition to the male holotype, three female paratypes were collected: AMNH 562649–562651.

Rothschild and Hartert (1914b: 207) noted that Rook Island was named by William Dampier for Sir George Rook and that it should not be spelled with an ‘‘e’’.