Megalurus timoriensis wahgiensis Mayr and 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 : 15

Megalurus timoriensis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard

Megalurus timoriensis wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 9 (Tomba, south slope of Mt. Hagen, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Megalurus macrurus wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348222 , adult male, collected at Tomba , south slope of Mount Hagen , 05.45S, 144.05E ( Times Atlas ), Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (5 Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 27 July 1950, by E. Thomas Gilliard. From the Gilliard Mount Hagen Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description, but the number of specimens was not. Measurements were not given for the entire series nor were specimens listed in Mayr and Gilliard (1954: 346). Specimens in addition to the holotype collected in 1950 in the mid-mountain grasslands of the Hagen and Kubor ranges are paratypes: AMNH 705124–705147. AMNH 705133 was sent to the AM in 1953 and AMNH 705138 and 705139 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.