KOFIAU PARADISE-KINGFISHER Tanysiptera ellioti VU

Tanysiptera ellioti Sharpe, 1870

MZUT AV10056; previously mounted; adult female; Indonesia, West Papua, Kofiau Island, August 1875; collected by A. A. Bruijn and donated by G. Doria in 1882 .

Remarks.—This specimen is one of the two females referred to by ‘d–e’ in Salvadori (1880: 448). It was donated to the museum by Giacomo Doria (1840–1913) (Salvadori 1915), the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘Giacomo Doria’, Genova (Italy), and was collected by Antoine Augustus Bruijn (1842–90), a Dutch navy officer, naturalist and trader in natural items from the Dutch East Indies. He and his men collected many birds in the Moluccas and West Papua. Parts of these collections were donated to the Genova museum, where they were studied by Tommaso Salvadori, who in exchange acquired many duplicates for MZUT.