Rhipidura rufiventris albertorum 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 : 221

Rhipidura rufiventris albertorum Hartert

Rhipidura rufiventris albertorum Hartert, 1924a: 207 (New Hanover).

Now Rhipidura rufiventris setosa (Quoy and Gaimard, 1830) . See Watson and Mayr, 1986: 540, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 238.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651220 , adult male, collected on New Hanover , 02.35S, 150.10E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 February 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 8212). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he examined eight specimens collected on New Hanover in February and March (actually February to April) 1923. The seven paratypes are: AMNH 651219 and 651221–651226, five males and two females.