Gerygone palpebrosa tarara Rand, 1941

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 : 169

Gerygone palpebrosa tarara Rand

Gerygone palpebrosa tarara Rand, 1941: 11 (Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, Territory of Papua, New Guinea).

Now Gerygone palpebrosa tarara Rand, 1941 . See Mayr, 1986b: 446, Coates, 1990: 115–116, and Dickinson, 2003: 448.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 426737 , adult male, collected at Tarara , ca. 08.50S, 141.50E (see map in Rand and Brass, 1940), Wassi Kussa River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 4 January 1937, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and George H.H. Tate. From the 1936–1937 Archbold New Guinea Expedition (no. 6755).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description and measurements were given for 10 males and 8 females. However, more specimens were available to Rand from within the range given for tarara. Paratypes are: AMNH 422021–422028 , four males, two immature males, one female, and one unsexed immature from Wuroi, Oriomo River ; AMNH 426719–426724 , 426736 , and 426738–426742, five males and seven females from Tarara ; and AMNH 426733–426735 , two males and one female from Penzara, between the Wassi Kussa and Morehead rivers. Of these 23 paratypes, AMNH 422023 and 426720 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

Rand and Brass (1940) summarized this Archbold Expedition and presented maps and a detailed itinerary.