Munia spectabilis mayri Hartert

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 122

Munia spectabilis mayri Hartert

Munia spectabilis mayri Hartert, 1930b: 42 (Ifaar) .

Now Lonchura spectabilis mayri (Hartert, 1930) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 383; Coates, 1990: 342– 344; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 376.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721328 , adult male, collected at Ifaar , 02.34S, 140.31E ( USBGN, 1982), Sentani Lake , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2639). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s field number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had a ‘‘series’’ collected in September and October, giving measurements for four males and three females. Mayr’s fieldwork was jointly sponsored by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and Rothschild ; Hartert studied the entire collection and then sent half to AMNH. The Rothschild half came to AMNH in 1932. The following paratypes, all collected at Ifaar by Mayr in September and October 1928, are in AMNH: AMNH 294409–294411 , three males, AMNH 294412 , female, AMNH 721329 , immature male, AMNH 721330 , male, AMNH 721331 , 721332 , two females. AMNH 721332 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

For further information on this collection by Mayr, see Hartert (1930a: 18–19) and Mayr (1930: 20–26).