Phylloscopus trivirgatus moorhousei Gilliard and LeCroy

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 moorhousei Gilliard and LeCroy

Phylloscopus trivirgatus moorhousei Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 206 (Wild Dog Range, Whiteman Mountains, central New Britain, 5200± ft).

Now Phylloscopus poliocephalus moorhousei Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967 . See Coates, 1990: 81– 82, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 671–672.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 708134 , adult male, collected at Camp 12 on Wild Dog Mountain, ca. 5200 ft, Whiteman Range , 05.50S, 150.00E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, on 17 December 1958, by E. Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The type series comprised six males (including the holotype), nine females, and one sex?. Paratypes are: AMNH 777976– 777990 . I did not find AMNH 777978 in the collection ; AMNH 777990 was sent to the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery in Port Moresby .

Specimens from the Gilliard New Britain collection are labeled with altitudes that are too high, due to a malfunction of the altimeter. Approximate altitudes of the various camps are given in the itinerary ( Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 178).