Epimachus fastosus ultimus Diamond, 1969

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 : 100

Epimachus fastosus ultimus Diamond

Epimachus fastosus ultimus Diamond, 1969: 31 (Mt. Menawa, Bewani Mountains, Sepik District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Epimachus fastosus ultimus Diamond, 1969 . See Coates, 1990: 444–445; Cracraft, 1992: 19– 20; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 357–365; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 479.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789765 , adult female, collected on Mount Menawa , 5200 ft, 03.19S, 141.43E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569), Bewani Mountains, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (formerly in Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 10 August 1966, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 1378).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Diamond gave the AMNH number of the holotype and noted that he had one male, nine females, and five immature specimens ‘‘including birds obtained by natives and measured in the field.’’ All 15 of these specimens are in AMNH. The 14 paratypes are: AMNH 830451–830464, one adult male, eight females, five immature males, collected on Mount Menawa from above 4500 ft, 2–10 August 1966, by Diamond. It should be noted that although Mount Menawa is in the Bewani Mountains, all of Diamond’s labels are printed Torricelli Mountains.