Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert

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Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert

Melipotes gymnops goliathi Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 34 (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).

Now Melipotes fumigatus goliathi Rothschild and Hartert, 1911 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 420, and Higgins et al., 2008: 632–633.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696317 , adult male, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 January 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5221). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. In their report on the entire collection, Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 514) gave Meek’s numbers for five males and three females. The seven paratypes, all collected on Mount Goliath in January and

February 1911, are: AMNH 696315 (Meek no. 5364), AMNH 696316 (5363), AMNH 696318 (5189), AMNH 696319 (5142), AMNH 696320 (5086), males; AMNH 696321 (5453), AMNH 696322 (5341), females.