Phylloscopus trivirgatus matthiae Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 65

Phylloscopus trivirgatus matthiae Rothschild and Hartert

Phylloscopus trivirgatus matthiae Rothschild and Hartert, 1924: 52 (St. Matthias Island).

Now Phylloscopus poliocephalus matthiae Rothschild and Hartert, 1924 . See Coates, 1990: 81– 82, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 671–672.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450353 , adult male, collected on Mussau (5 St. Matthias) Island, 01.30S, 149.40E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), St. Matthias Islands , New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 15 June 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8557).

COMMENTS: Eichhorn’s unique field number was cited in the original description. Only two specimens were collected; the paratype is AMNH 450354 , male, collected on 21 July 1923, by Eichhorn (no. 8670). Hartert (1924b) published on Eichhorn’s entire Mussau collection .