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 text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 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) .