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Myiolestes megarhynchus subsp. idenburgi Rand

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Myiolestes megarhynchus idenburgi Rand

Myiolestes megarhynchus idenburgi Rand, 1940: 9 (7 [sic] km. southwest Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, altitude 850 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha idenburgi (Rand, 1940). See Ford, 1979, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305658, adult male, collected 4 km (not 7 km) southwest of Bernhard Camp, 850 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E (Archbold et al., 1942, map), Taritatu (5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 30 March 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and William B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 10370).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description and specimens from 850 and 1200 m on the mountain slopes just south of the Idenburg River were included in the type series. Rand (1942b: 490), in his record of the birds obtained on this expedition, listed the specimens obtained at these two localities as eight adult males, one immature male, and three adult females. The 11 paratypes are: AMNH 341693–641703. Of these, AMNH 641695 was sent to MZB in May 1957; and AMNH 641698 and 641701 were exchanged to FMNH in the mid-1960s.

The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. Archbold et al. (1942) provided a summary of the expedition with an itinerary and maps of collecting localities.

Notes

Published as part of 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:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 48

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , AMNH, MZB , FMNH
Event date
1939-03-30
Family
Pachycephalidae
Genus
Myiolestes
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 305658 , AMNH 341693-641703, AMNH 641695 , AMNH 641698
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Rand
Species
idenburgi
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1939-03-30

References

  • Ford, J. 1979. Subspeciation, hybridization and relationships in the Little Shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha of Australia and New Guinea. Emu 79: 195 - 210.
  • Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard & Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Boles, W. E. 2007. Family Pachycephalidae. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 374 - 437. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls, 436 photographs.
  • Archbold, R., A. L. Rand, and L. J. Brass. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 41. Summary of the 1938 - 1939 New Guinea Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79 (3): 197 - 288, 35 pls., 3 maps.
  • Rand, A. L. 1942 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 43. Birds of the 1938 - 1939 New Guinea Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79 (7): 425 - 516.