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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Parotia carolae clelandiae
Gilliard
Parotia carolae clelandiae
Gilliard, 1961: 5
(Telefolmin, Victor Emanuel Mountains, Mandated Territory of New
Guinea
,
5000 feet
).
Now
Parotia carolae clelandiorum
Gilliard, 1961
. See
Mayr, 1962d: 194
;
Gilliard, 1969: 176–181
;
Coates, 1990: 472–475
;
Cracraft, 1992: 26–27
;
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 298–304
; and
Frith and Frith, 2009b: 472
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 708171
, adult male, collected at
Telefomin
(=
Telefolmin
),
5000 ft
,
05.07S
,
141.38E
(
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 571
),
Victor Emanuel Mountains
,
West Sepik Province
,
Papua New Guinea
(formerly in
Mandated Territory of New
Guinea), on
13 May 1954
, by
Margaret
and
E. Thomas Gilliard.
COMMENTS: Gilliard cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave measurements for two males and one female. The two
paratypes
are: Telefomin,
4800 ft
,
AMNH 675925
, male molting into adult plumage,
25 April 1954
;
AMNH 675926
, female,
22 March 1954
.
Because Gilliard
named this subspecies in honor of
Brigadier Donald M. Cleland
and his wife,
Rachel
, the original spelling should have been
clelandiorum
(
ICZN
, 1999: 37, Art. 31.1.2)
.
AMNH 811999, adult male, was not part of the
type
series. It was captured alive, photographed, and deposited at the Honolulu Zoo in
1954 in
the care of Paul Breeze, then director, with the understanding that when it died it would come to AMNH. It died in 1968 and was frozen. A chance question to Breeze in
August 1975
led to its being shipped to AMNH frozen, where it was made into a study skin by David Schwendeman, AMNH taxidermist.