Pinarolestes megarhynchus superfluus Rothschild and Hartert

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:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 48

Pinarolestes megarhynchus superfluus Rothschild and Hartert

Pinarolestes megarhynchus superfluus Rothschild and Hartert, 1912: 205 (Kumusi River).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha superflua ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1912) . See Ford, 1979, Coates, 1990: 220–224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657097 , adult male, collected on the Kumusi River , 08.30S, 148.10E (PNG, 1984), Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, on 17 May 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2962). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meek’s unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description and a type series of six specimens listed. The five paratypes, all in AMNH and collected on the Kumusi River in May and June 1907 by A.S. Meek, are: males, AMNH 657098 (Meek no. 2975), AMNH 657099 (3006), AMNH 657100 (3166), females, AMNH 657101 (2961), and AMNH 657102 (3000). AMNH 657098, labeled ‘‘male’’ by Meek and marked ‘‘imm’’ by Hartert, is the specimen listed in the description as ‘‘female imm.’’