Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr, 1931

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 : 104

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0003-0090

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scientific name

Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr
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Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr View in CoL

Melanocharis longicauda View in CoL orientalis Mayr, 1931c: 669 (Aroariver) .

Now Melanocharis longicauda View in CoL orientalis Mayr, 1931 . See Coates, 1990: 318–319, and Gregory, 2008: 335–336.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 698637 View Materials , adult male, collected at Avera , Aroa River, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 13 March 1903, by Albert S. Meek (no. A.411). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that orientalis was from the southern watershed of southeastern New Guinea (Aroa River, etc.). Because this description appeared in Mayr’s report on his 1929 collections in the Saruwaget and Herzog mountains and was prepared while Mayr was working at the ZMB, it is not clear how many southeastern New Guinea specimens from the Rothschild Collection he may have seen. The above-cited specimen bears Meek’s field label, a Rothschild Collection label marked ‘‘Typus, orientalis Mayr’’ in Mayr’s hand, and an AMNH type label with the name written by Mayr. Because Mayr intended this specimen to be the type, I hereby designate AMNH 698637 the lectotype of Melanocharis longicauda orientalis .

The late W.S. Peckover had researched the location of Avera and found it to be at ca. 08.38S, 147.05E, very near a place called Aveve at 08.40S, 147.05E.

Pristorhamphus versteri meeki Rothschild and

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Melanocharitidae

Genus

Melanocharis

Loc

Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary 2010
2010
Loc

Melanocharis longicauda

Gregory, P. A. 2008: 335
Coates, B. J. 1990: 318
1990
Loc

Melanocharis longicauda

Mayr, E. 1931: 669
1931
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