Toxorhamphus iliolophus flava Mayr and Rand

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Toxorhamphus iliolophus flava Mayr and Rand

Toxorhamphus iliolophus flava Mayr and Rand, 1935: 13 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Western Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Oedistoma iliolophus flavum ( Mayr and Rand, 1935) . See Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 337.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422311 , adult male, collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964a: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 (First) Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2791).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description,

with 16 specimens comprising the type series. Southeastern New Guinea specimens were included in flavum with doubt. The 15 paratypes are: Mafulu, AMNH 421075– 421082 , 421084 , five males, three females, one sex ?; Kubuna , AMNH 421083 , female ; Wuroi , AMNH 422308–422310 , 422312 , 422313 , three males, two females .

See previous form for treatment of iliolophus when included in the neuter genus Oedistoma .

For an account of the birds collected on this expedition, see Mayr and Rand (1937), and for a summary of the expedition, see Archbold and Rand (1935).