Meliphaga analoga connectens Salomonsen

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Meliphaga analoga connectens Salomonsen

Meliphaga analoga connectens Salomonsen, 1966a: 5 (Madang, Astrolabe Bay, northeastern New Guinea).

Now Meliphaga analoga flavida Stresemann and Paludan, 1932 . See Diamond, 1969: 38–46, Coates, 1990: 289–291, and Higgins et al., 2008: 591.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 267966 , adult male, collected at Madang, 05.14S, 145.45E (Times Atlas), Astrolabe Bay , Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 30 August 1928, by Rollo H. Beck.

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as the northern New Guinea lowlands from Wewak to Huon Gulf. Specimens from these areas that would have been available to Salomonsen when he worked at AMNH in the early 1960s are considered paratypes: Wewak, AMNH 766475–766477 ; Kanganaman , Sepik River, AMNH 466478 , 466479 ; Keku , AMNH 267959–267965 ; Madang , AMNH 267967– 267969 ; Simbang , AMNH 695969 . Gilliard specimens from the Adelbert Mountains taken in 1959, and from Aiome, Ramu River in 1964, were not available to Salomonsen .