Heteromyias albispecularis centralis Rand, 1940

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 : 262

Heteromyias albispecularis centralis Rand

Heteromyias albispecularis centralis Rand, 1940b: 4 (altitude 2150 meters, 18 km. southwest Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland New Guinea).

Now Poecilodryas albispecularis centralis (Rand, 1940) . See Mayr, 1986d: 581, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 351–352, and Dickinson, 2003: 518.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305664 , sex? [5 adult male], collected 18 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 2150 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Sungai Taritatu (5 Idenburg River), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 5 February 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold New Guinea Expedition (no. 9356).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Rand (1942b: 486) listed the specimens included in his type series. The paratypes are: AMNH 341450 , male, Bele River, 18 November 1938 ; AMNH 341451 , male nestling, Bele (5 Ibele) River, 23 November 1938 ; and AMNH 341452 , female, Bele River, 18 November 1938. Of these, AMNH 341450 was sent to MZB on 7 May 1957 .

See Archbold et al. (1942) for a summary of the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition, also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie naar Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea.

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