Ptilotis chrysotis madaraszi Rothschild and Hartert

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Ptilotis chrysotis madaraszi Rothschild and Hartert

Ptilotis chrysotis madaraszi Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 446 (Simbang) .

Now Xanthotis flaviventer madaraszi (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) . See Coates, 1990: 275–277, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227–228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696156 , adult male, collected at Simbang , 06.35S, 147.50E ( USBGN, 1943), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 September 1899, by E. Nyman. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the only male collected on 7 September 1899 was designated as the type; three additional Simbang specimens collected by Nyman in August 1899 were listed as part of the type series, as was a specimen in HNHM, collected at Simbang by Biro. The HNHM collection was completely destroyed by fire in 1956 ( Horváth, 1970). Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 696157 , male, 21 August 1899 ; AMNH 696158 , male, 3 August 1899 ; AMNH 696159 , female, 3 August 1899. AMNH 696155 , collected at Stephansort on 20 December 1899 by Nyman is not considered a paratype, as it was not included in the list of specimens given in the original description .