Gerygone chrysogaster leucothorax Mayr, 1940

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 : 172

Gerygone chrysogaster leucothorax Mayr

Gerygone chrysogaster leucothorax Mayr, 1940: 2 (Wanggar, head of Geelvink Bay).

Now Gerygone chrysogaster leucothorax Mayr, 1940 . See Mayr, 1986b: 448, and Dickinson, 2003: 448.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302033 (not 202033, as in original description), adult male, collected at Wanggar , 03.24S, 135.20E ( USBGN, 1982a), head of Teluk Cenderawasih (5 Geelvink Bay), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 1 November 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 2453). From the Expedition G. Stein 1931–1932.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, and referred to the comments by Hartert and Paludan (in Hartert et al., 1936: 215–216), who had earlier remarked on differences and had given measurements of specimens collected by Stein: one male from Kampong Wanggar (the holotype) and eight males and two females from Unterer Menoo (paratypes). Stein’s collection was to have been divided among Rothschild, Leonard C. Sanford (for AMNH), and ZMB. Because the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH before the collection was divided, three-fourths came directly to AMNH and one-fourth to ZMB ( Hartert et al., 1936: 166). However, Mayr (1940: 3) explicitly included all of Stein’s series in his type series. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 302034– 302041, six males, one female, and one unsexed specimen that was probably not included in the measurements, all collected at Unterer Menoo in August 1931. AMNH 302035 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s. The remaining paratypes should be in ZMB.

Stein (1933) published information on collecting localities in the Weyland Mountains.

The AMNH labels of specimens in the type series were mistakenly numbered 202033–202041 ; this has now been corrected. The ‘‘S’’ within a circle on some of these specimens refers to the fact that they were in Sanford’s share of the collection.