Cichlornis grosvenori Gilliard

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 23

Cichlornis grosvenori Gilliard

Cichlornis grosvenori Gilliard, 1960: 1 (Wild Dog Range, Whiteman Mountains, central New Britain).

Now Megalurulus whitneyi grosvenori ( Gilliard, 1960) . See Ripley, 1985, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 582.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 708127 , adult female, collected at Camp no. 12, 5200+ ft, Wild Dog Range, Whiteman Mountains , 05.50S, 150.00E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 December 1958, by E. Thomas and Margaret Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The single paratype is AMNH 777991, male?, collected at the same camp on 22 December 1958.

A watercolor of this bird by Margaret Gilliard was reproduced in Gilliard (1961: 273); see Gilliard and LeCroy (1967) for a report on the birds collected on this expedition.

Mayr and Diamond (2001: 391) retained the genus Cichlornis and gave full species status to grosvenori .

For a recent study of the mitochondrial phylogeny of Locustella and related genera, see Drovetski et al. (2004).