Amblyornis inornatus aedificans Mayr, 1931

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Zootaxa 1072 (1), pp. 1-25 : 4-5

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scientific name	Amblyornis inornatus aedificans Mayr, 1931
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Mayr, E. (1931): Die Vögel des Saruwaged und Herzoggebirges (NONeuguinea). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17(5): 648 [639–723]

Now Amblyornis macgregoriae macgregoriae De Vis, 1890 View in CoL . See Mayr 1962a: 176, Dickinson 2003: 451, Frith and Frith 2004: 277.

HOLOTYPE: ZMB 30.1940 View Materials . Adult male. Loc.: Dawong [Herzog Mountain Range, Papua New Guinea, 6°52' S, 146°46' E]. Date: 27 May 1929. Coll.: Mayr No. 1474. Iris: brown. Bill: brownish. Feet: grey. Testes: small. Weight: 130 gms. [Skin; data on Mayr ZMB label]. GoogleMaps

PARATYPE: ZMB 30.1941 View Materials . Adult female. Loc.: Dawong. Date: 25 May 1929. Coll.: Mayr No.

1451. Iris: brown. Bill: blackish. Feet: black. Ovaries: medium sized. Weight: 130 gms. [Skin; data on Mayr ZMB label].

COMMENTS: Mayr started his collecting expedition to the Herzog mountain range in Malalo near Salamoa [Salamaua], on 7 May 1929. The village Dawong (1400m a.s.l.) was the main base on this trip between 10 May and 3 June 1929. Mayr left Salamoa on 12 June 1929 (see Mayr 1931: 640–646, Haffer 1997: 447). Mayr (1931) accidentally referred to the male bird as a female; Mayr number 1474, the holotype, is a male bird on the label. Frith and Frith (2004: 277) subsequently referred to the wrong specimen as holotype.