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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Astrapia splendidissima helios
Mayr
Astrapia splendidissima helios
Mayr, 1936: 3
(Mt. Goliath, Oranje range, Dutch New
Guinea
).
Now
Astrapia splendidissima helios
Mayr, 1936
. See
Mayr, 1962d: 192
;
Gilliard, 1969: 147–151
;
Cracraft, 1992: 21–22
;
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 253–257
; and
Frith and Frith, 2009b: 467
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 448981
, adult male, collected on
Mount Goliath
,
04.41S
,
139.50E
(
Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569
),
Pegunungan Jayawijaya
(=
Oranje Mountains
),
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
(formerly
Dutch New
Guinea), in
January-February
, 1911, by
A.S. Meek. From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
and gave measurements of three adult males, four immature males, and five females.
Rothschild and Hartert (1913)
reported on the entire
Meek
collection from
Dutch New
Guinea
and on page 522 reported two adult males, four juvenile males, and six females.
The
11 paratypes
, all collected on
Mount Goliath
between
15 January and 20 February 1911
and with sex recorded as given by
Meek
, are:
AMNH 678042
(Meek no. 5127), adult male
;
AMNH 678043
(5463),
AMNH 678044
(5269),
AMNH 678045
(5150),
AMNH 678046
(5431), four immature males
;
AMNH 678047
(5389),
AMNH 678048
(5268),
AMNH 678049
(5139),
AMNH 678050
(5128),
AMNH 678051
(5318), five females
;
AMNH 678052
(–), [male molting to adult plumage].
Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 522)
noted that the Meek label was missing from one of their specimens
;
at present two of those specimens have labels missing: the
holotype
and
AMNH 567052
. One of them should
have Meek’s number 5271. Meek’s labels from this expedition are extremely brittle and subject to tearing. For an account of Meek’s trip to Mount Goliath, see
Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473–475)
and
LeCroy and Jansen (2011: 183)
.