Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 129-130

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940: 13 (Bele River, 18 km. north of Lake Habbema, 2200 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940 . See Dickinson, 2003: 438 and Higgins et al., 2008: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305655 , adult male, collected on the Ibele (5 Bele ) River , 18 km north of Lake Habbema , 2200 m, 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982a), Maoke (5 Snow ) Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia (5 Netherlands New Guinea), on 23 November 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8254).

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. In the later report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 expedition, Rand (1942b: 509) listed seven males and 11 females collected, in addition to the type specimen. Paratypes are: near Lake Habbema, 18 October–6 November 1938, AMNH 342966–342968 , males, AMNH 342969–342972 , females ; Ibele River , 12–29 November 1938, AMNH 342973–342976 , males, AMNH 342977–342983 , females. Of these, AMNH 342970 was sent to MZB, and AMNH 342967 and AMNH 342983 were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .