Rhipidura dahli antonii 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 : 230-231

Rhipidura dahli antonii Hartert

Rhipidura dahli antonii Hartert, 1926b: 141 (New Ireland).

Now Rhipidura dahli antonii Hartert, 1926 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 230.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651418 , adult male, collected on New Ireland Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 January 1924, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8975). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert gave Eichhorn’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but did not say how many specimens he examined. Later, in his report on Eichhorn’s New Ireland collection, Hartert (1925: 130) said that five males and one female were collected. Paratypes are AMNH 651419–651423.

Eichhorn collected in southwestern New Ireland, with his camp being at 1800 ft ( Hartert, 1925: 115).