Monachella mülleriana coultasi Mayr, 1934

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 : 236-237

Monachella mülleriana coultasi Mayr

Monachella mülleriana coultasi Mayr, 1934a: 14 (Andomgi River (2500 ft.), Wide Bay, New Britain).

Now Monachella muelleriana coultasi Mayr, 1934 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 394.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 417432 , adult male, collected at Andamgi village (5 Andomgi River ), 2500 ft, southern Baining Mountains , Gazelle Peninsula , East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 April 1933, by assistant John James for William Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 43875).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of four males and four females. Paratypes are AMNH 334453– 334456, two males and two females from Andamgi, and AMNH 334568–334570, a male and two females from Usuwit River, northern Gazelle Peninsula.

According to Coultas’ unpublished journal (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), assistant John James was sent into the Baining Mountains to the village of Andamgi, east of Balayang, where he collected for 6 weeks from 25 March 1933 onward. Bulayang (5 Balayang) is at 04.55S, 151.55E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984).