Amblyornis inornatus longicristatus Mayr

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 83

Amblyornis inornatus longicristatus Mayr

Amblyornis inornatus longicristatus Mayr, 1931c: 649 (Mt. Goliath) .

Now Amblyornis macgregoriae mayri Hartert, 1930 . See Rothschild, 1931: 251; Mayr, 1941: 183; Gilliard, 1969: 300–311; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 275–278; 2009a: 394–395.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679540 , adult male, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.41S, 139.50E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569), Pegunungan Jayawijaya (= Oranje Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 13 January 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5113). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited Meek’s field number of the holotype in the original description and included in his type series three males collected by Meek and one collected by the Pratts. The three paratypes are: Mount Kunupi , Weyland Mountains, AMNH 679537 , [male], November-December 1920, collected by the Pratts ; Mount Goliath , AMNH 679541 , 679542 , adult males, 12–16 January 1911, collected by Meek. AMNH 679543 and 679544 are immature males collected by Meek on Mount Goliath but were not part of Mayr’s type series .

For a report on Meek’s Mount Goliath collection, see Rothschild and Hartert (1913).