Melirrhophetes foersteri Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 133

Melirrhophetes foersteri Rothschild and Hartert

Melirrhophetes foersteri Rothschild and Hartert, 1911b: 12 (Rawlinson Mountains, north of Huon Gulf, German New Guinea).

Now Melidectes foersteri (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911) . See Gilliard, 1959, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, Diamond, 1972: 387–389, Coates, 1990: 263, and Higgins et al., 2008: 614.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 693847 , [adult male], collected in the Rawlinson Mountains , 06.30S, 147.15E (PNG, 1984), Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, in November 1910, by Christian Keysser. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert described the adult male and female and said that the types, in the Rothschild Collection, had been obtained from Professor Foerster. The male and the female specimens were therefore syntypes; a third unsexed specimen has no taxonomic standing. Hartert (1919a: 175) listed the presumed male as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype of M. foersteri ; the presumed female becomes the paralectotype: AMNH 693848. All three of these specimens were collected by Keysser, but if any had an original label, it is no longer present. The Rothschild labels are dated ‘‘ xi 1910.’’ Hartert (1919a: 175) mistakenly gave the collecting year as ‘‘1911.’’