Megalurus timoriensis muscalis Rand, 1938

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 : 15-16

Megalurus timoriensis muscalis Rand

Megalurus timoriensis muscalis Rand, 1938: 4 (Lake Daviumbu, middle Fly; south New Guinea).

Now Megalurus timoriensis muscalis Rand, 1938 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 426547 , adult male, collected on Lake Daviumbu , 07.33S, 141.15E (Times Atlas), middle Fly River, Papua New Guinea, on 9 September 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and George H.H. Tate. From the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 5154).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Nine males and three females were collected ( Rand, 1942a: 329) ; only 10 of the 11 paratypes were cataloged at AMNH: AMNH 426543–426546 and 426548–426553, all from Lake Daviumbu. AMNH 426548 and 426552 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

Rand (1942a) published an account of the birds collected, and Rand and Brass (1940) published a summary of the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition.