Monarcha cinerascens impediens Hartert, 1926

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 : 199

Monarcha cinerascens impediens Hartert

Monarcha cinerascens impediens Hartert, 1926a: 40 (Feni Island).

Now Monarcha cinerascens impediens Hartert, 1926 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 393, and Filardi and Smith, 2005.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 654140 , adult male, collected on the Feni Islands , 04.05S, 153.40E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 19 May 1924, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 9275). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Eichhorn’s unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description. Hartert had eight specimens of impediens from Feni collected in May and June ( Hartert, 1926a: 40) and eight from Nissan collected in July and August ( Hartert, 1926a: 46), as well as specimens from Credner and Choiseul islands. There are seven paratypes from Feni, AMNH 654139 and 654141–654146; eight from Nissan, AMNH 654147–654154; one from Credner, AMNH 654157; and two from Choiseul, AMNH 654158 and 654159. Hartert did not list this type in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection, although it bears a Rothschild type label.