Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 127

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475995
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scientific name	Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert
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Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1924: 8 View in CoL (Hills on S.W. coast of New Ireland).

Now Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1924 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 410, Coates, 1990: 254–255, and Higgins et al., 2008: 681–682.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697200 About AMNH , adult male, collected on the southwest coast of New Ireland, 2500 ft, 03.20S, 152.00E (PNG, 1984), New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 22 January 1924, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8981). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Eichhorn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Hartert (1925: 133), in his report on Eichhorn’s New Ireland collection, noted that nine specimens were collected, but Eichhorn’s field numbers were not listed. Eight of these specimens came to AMNH. The seven paratypes in AMNH are: males, AMNH 697197 About AMNH (Eichhorn no. 8839), 5 December 1923 ; AMNH 697198 About AMNH (8878), 17 December 1923 ; AMNH 697199 About AMNH (8939), 3 January 1924 ; females, AMNH 697201 About AMNH (9001), 26 January 1924 ; AMNH 697202 About AMNH (8829), 1 December 1923 ; AMNH 697203 About AMNH (9023), 5 February 1924 ; AMNH 697204 About AMNH (9036), 8 February 1924 .