Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri Rand

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 : 47

Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri Rand

Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri Rand, 1938: 10 (Palmer River, two miles below the junction with Black River, south New Guinea).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha palmeri ( Rand, 1938) . See Mees, 1982: 141–143, Coates, 1990: 220–224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 427259 , adult male, collected on the Palmer River , 2 miles below the junction with the Black River, 05.45S, 141.45E (PNG, 1984), Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 July 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and George H.H. Tate on the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 4536).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range of palmeri was given as the Fly River area from the headwaters to Lake Daviumbu on the west bank and to the mouth at Gaima on the east bank. Paratypes are: AMNH 427255–427258, 427260–427297. Of these, AMNH 427255 and 427268 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s, and AMNH 427263 was sent to PNGM.

A summary of this expedition was provided by Rand and Brass (1940) and a report on the birds by Rand (1942a). Mees (1982: 141–143) and Coates (1990: 220–224) considered palmeri a synonym of nominate megarhyncha , while Dickinson (2003: 489) and Boles (2007: 431) recognized palmeri.