Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941

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 : 103-104

Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand

Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941: 15 (6 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, at 1200 meters, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941 . See Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 335–336.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305910 , adult male, collected 6 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 1200 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 February 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 9715).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Four males and one female were measured ; however, 10 specimens were cataloged and would have been available to Rand for the description of umbrosa. The nine paratypes, all collected at the same locality, 18–28 February 1939, are: AMNH 343188 (Archbold no. 9571), immature male, AMNH 343189 (9604), male, AMNH 343190 (9713), male, AMNH 343191 (9714), male, AMNH 343192 (9749), immature male ; AMNH 343193 (9590), female, AMNH 343194 (9716), female, AMNH 343195 (9717), female ; and AMNH 343196 (–), male. AMNH 343189 was sent to MZB in May 1957. Rand (1942b: 511–512), in his report on the entire bird collection from this expedition, listed four adult males, three immature males, and one adult female. I cannot explain the discrepancy ; the above information is taken from the specimen labels.

Archbold et al. (1942) published a summary of this 1938–1939 expedition; it was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie.