Monarcha hebetior eichhorni 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 : 214

Monarcha hebetior eichhorni Hartert

Monarcha hebetior eichhorni Hartert, 1924b: 271 (New Hanover).

Now Myiagra hebetior eichhorni (Hartert, 1924) . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 321.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 654638 , adult male, collected on New Hanover Island , 02.35S, 150.10E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 3 March 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8256). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Eichhorn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Hartert (1924a: 208) had previously listed the New Hanover form as ‘‘ Monarcha ?’’. Eichhorn collected a second male, the paratype, on 1 March 1923, AMNH 654639 (Eichhorn no. 8246).