Microeca leucops auricularis Mayr and Rand

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 : 251-252

Microeca leucops auricularis Mayr and Rand

Microeca leucops auricularis Mayr and Rand, 1935: 7 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Territory of Papua).

Now Tregellasia leucops auricularis ( Mayr and Rand, 1935) . See Coates, 1990: 194–196.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422051 , adult male, collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 January 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2542).

COMMENTS: A single specimen was collected. Wuroi, ca. 65 km from the mouth of the Oriomo River (08.45S, 143.00E, Papua New Guinea, 1984), was the landing place for Dogwa, 9 km to the west ( Archbold and Rand, 1935: 576–577). For additional information on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Mayr and Rand (1937) and Archbold and Rand (1935).