Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 10

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0003-0090

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scientific name

Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand
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Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand View in CoL

Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940: 7 View in CoL (Mafulu, altitude 1250 meters, central division, Territory of Papua, New Guinea).

Now Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 204, and Boles, 2007: 411.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420745 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Mafulu , 1250 m, 08.31S, 147.01E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569, converted to degrees and minutes), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 October 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 1847). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements for eight males and 10 females from between 1200 and 2400 m, mountains of southeastern New Guinea and the Huon Peninsula , westward to the slopes above the Idenburg River on the north and Mt. Goliath on the south at 1500 m. There are additional specimens from these localities in AMNH that would also have been available to Rand. Paratypes are: AMNH 267733–267737 About AMNH , Sevia, and AMNH 267738 About AMNH , Zakaheme, Huon Peninsula, collected by R. Beck in 1929 ; AMNH 341476 About AMNH , Idenburg River , collected by the Archbold Expedition in 1939 ; AMNH 420743 About AMNH , Mt. Tafa , 420744, Iuvulu, near Ononge, 420746, Mt. Tafa, all collected on the Archbold Expedition in 1933 ; AMNH 659497–659500 About AMNH , 659515 About AMNH , Mt. Goliath , collected by A.S. Meek in 1911 ; AMNH 659501–659506 About AMNH , Aroa and Angabunga rivers, collected by Meek in 1903 and 1905 ; and AMNH 659507–659510 About AMNH , head of Mambare River , collected by Meek in 1906. Of these paratypes, AMNH 659503 About AMNH and 659508 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, see Archbold and Rand (1935) .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Rhagologus

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Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary 2010
2010
Loc

Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus

Boles, W. E. 2007: 411
Coates, B. J. 1990: 204
1990
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