Melidectes belfordi schraderensis Gilliard and

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 134

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Melidectes belfordi schraderensis Gilliard and LeCroy

Melidectes belfordi schraderensis Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968: 33 View in CoL (Mt. Kominjim, 8300 feet, Schrader Mountains, Territory of New Guinea).

Now Melidectes belfordi schraderensis Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 259–262, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 792681, adult male, collected on Mount Kominjim, 8300 ft, Schrader Mountains, 05.00S, 144.10E ( PNG, 1984), Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1964, by E. Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description; the type series comprised one skin specimen additional to the holotype, AMNH 792848, sex?, and spirit specimens AMNH 3633–3639, all of which are paratypes, although only two were listed in the original description.