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
Author
Lecroy, Mary
Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Epimachus astrapioides
Rothschild
Epimachus astrapioides
Rothschild, 1897d: 22
(Dutch New
Guinea
).
Now considered a hybrid
Epimachus fastosus
X
Astrapia nigra
. See
Hartert, 1911a: 604
, pl. 7;
Hartert, 1919: 129
;
Stresemann, 1930: 13
;
Rothschild, 1930: 16–17
;
Mayr, 1962d: 203
;
Gilliard, 1969: 63–65
;
Fuller, 1995: 50–53
;
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 508
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 679119
, [adult male], purchased from
van Renesse
van Duivenbode, collected somewhere in
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
(formerly Dutch New Guinea). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: This specimen is generally accepted as a hybrid between
Epimachus fastosus
and
Astrapia nigra
(
Stresemann, 1930: 13
)
. It is illustrated by
Hartert (1911a: 604
and pl. 7), by
Fuller (1995
: pl. 7), and by
Frith and Beehler (1998
: pl. 14, no. 1). Although nothing is known about where this single specimen was collected, it was presumably from somewhere on the Vogelkop as its putative parents occur there.