Sericornis beccarii randi Mayr, 1937

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 : 133

Sericornis beccarii randi Mayr

Sericornis beccarii randi Mayr, 1937: 10 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Western Division of Papua).

Now Sericornis magnirostra randi Mayr, 1937 . See Coates, 1990: 105, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 174.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422041 , unsexed [5 adult male], collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 25 January 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2576).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; his type series comprised two males and one female. The paratypes are AMNH 422039 , male, and AMNH 422040 , female. The latter specimen was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

For a description of this locality, see Archbold and Rand (1935: 576). The form was listed as ‘‘ Sericornis beccarii subspecies’’ in Mayr and Rand (1937: 120) and as Sericornis beccarii randi in del Hoyo et al. (2007: 584–585).