Pachycephala pectoralis balim Rand, 1940

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 : 27-28

Pachycephala pectoralis balim Rand

Pachycephala pectoralis balim Rand, 1940: 8 (Balim River, altitude 1600 meters; Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Pachycephala pectoralis balim Rand, 1940 . See Sibley and Monroe, 1990: 460, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 443, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305652 , female, collected on the Baliem (5 Balim ) River , 1600 meters, 04.25S, 138.59E ( USBGN, 1982), Maoke (5 Snow ) Mountains , Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 12 December 1938, by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8631).

COMMENTS: In the original description, the AMNH number of the holotype and measurements for 14 males and eight females were given. The type series from the Baliem and Ibele (5 Bele, as on label) rivers comprised 16 males, eight females (including the holotype), one sex?, and one female nestling ; the 25 paratypes are AMNH 341477–341501 . The 1938–1939 expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands New Guinea government, known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie, and a share of the specimens was sent to MZB in May 1957, including three specimens of this form: AMNH 341480 , 341486 , and 341494. AMNH 341492 and 341499 were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 460) suggested that balim might be considered a species separate from P. pectoralis , but most authors have retained it as a subspecies, e.g. Beehler and Finch (1985: 43), Schodde and Mason (1999: 443), Dickinson (2003: 476), and Boles (2007: 421).