Myiagra rubecula papuana Rothschild and 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 : 208

Myiagra rubecula papuana Rothschild and Hartert

Myiagra rubecula papuana Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 317 (Kumusi River, North-Eastern British New Guinea).

Now Myiagra rubecula papuana Rothschild and Hartert, 1918 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 509–511, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 317.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 652942 , adult male, collected on the Kumusi River , 08.30S, 148.10E, ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Northern Province, Papua New Guinea (5 Northeastern British New Guinea), on 28 July 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3322). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes were listed as two additional males and a female in the Rothschild Collection and two females in BMNH. AMNH paratypes are: AMNH 652940 (Meek no. B.96), male, and AMNH 652941 (B.97), female, both from the Aroa River ; and AMNH 652943 , [male], from Nicura (collected by Lix) .