Eupetes leucostictus sibilans Mayr

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 62-63

Eupetes leucostictus sibilans Mayr

Eupetes leucostictus sibilans Mayr, 1931a: 691 (Cyclopengebirge) .

Now Ptilorrhoa leucosticta sibilans (Mayr, 1931) . See Deignan, 1964a: 235, and Coates, 1990: 62.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 293814 , adult male, collected in the Cyclops Mts. (5 Cijcloop Mts.), 028309S, 1408309E ( USBGN, 1943), Papua Prov., Indonesia, on 7 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2211).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Mayr (1931a: 691) did not say how many specimens he examined; Hartert (1930b: 87), under Eupetes leucostictus loriae , listed 17 adults and 2 juveniles from the Cyclops Mountains. As noted above, Mayr’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH and Lord Rothschild, and the collection was divided between AMNH and the Rothschild Collection. But in 1930, when Mayr was writing up his Saruwaged and Herzog Mt. collection, he visited the Rothschild Collection with Stresemann and worked with Hartert (1930a: 19) in working up part of his western New Guinea collection. Therefore, he would have been able to examine all of his Cyclops material when he described sibilans. Sixteen paratypes at AMNH are AMNH 293811–293813, 293815–293819, and 585335–585342. The two paratypes unaccounted for were probably sent to MZB ( Hartert, 1930a: 19).

Mayr (1930) published an account of this expedition to the Cyclops Mountains.

Eupetes leucostictus menawa Diamond Eupetes leucostictus menawa Diamond, 1969: 19

(Mt. Menawa, Bewani Mountains, Sepik Dis­

trict, Mandated Territory of New Guinea, 4500

feet).

Now Ptilorrhoa leucosticta menawa Diamond,

1969. See Coates, 1990: 62.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789763 , adult male, collected on Mt. Menawa , 5000 ft (on label), Bewani Mountains, 038159S, 1418159E ( USBGN, 1943), West Sepik Prov., Papua New Guinea, on 8 August 1966, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 1302).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Diamond had one male and two female paratypes: AMNH 829241–829243.

Eupetes castanonotus gilliardi Greenway Eupetes castanonotus gilliardi Greenway, 1966:

14 (Mt. Besar (2800 feet), Batanta, off western

New Guinea [West Irian]).

Now Ptilorrhoa castanonota gilliardi Greenway,

1966. See Coates 1990: 67, and Sibley and

Monroe, 1990: 457.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789541 , adult female, collected on Mt. Batanta (5 Mt. Besar), 2800 ft, Batanta Island, Papua Prov., Indonesia, on 20 June 1964, by E. Thomas Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 789539 and 789540, males, 789542, female, and 789543, juvenile female.

‘‘Besar’’ in Indonesian means ‘‘big, large, massive’’. Apparently this mountain is the one usually known as Mt. Batanta, with coordinates 008509S, 1308359E (USBGN, 1943).

Eupetes castanonotus saturatus Rothschild