Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna Rand, 1938

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

Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna Rand

Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna Rand, 1938: 9 (Kubuna, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Rhipidura rufidorsa kubuna Rand, 1938 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 230.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420457 , adult male, collected at Kubuna , ca. 08.42S, 146.45E, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 3 December 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold New Guinea Expedition (no. 2220).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description, and specimens were collected at Mafulu, Kubuna, and Veimauri. Paratypes are AMNH 420456 and 420458, Kubuna ; AMNH 420459 , Mafulu ; AMNH 420460– 420463 , Kubuna ; and AMNH 295568 , Veimauri. Of these, AMNH 420456 and 420461 were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .

For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Archbold and Rand (1935), and for a report on the birds collected, see Mayr and Rand (1937).