Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen

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Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen

Myzomela nigrita nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966a: 3 (Long Island, off the northeastern coast of New Guinea).

Now Myzomela pammelaena nigerrima Salomonsen, 1966 . See Diamond, 1976: 4–6, Coates, 1990: 243–245, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 650–651.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422677 , adult male, collected on Long Island , Vitiaz Strait, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 2 December 1933, by William F. Coultas on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 44805).

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as Long Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 422678–422683, three males and three females, all collected by Coultas on Long Island on 1 and 2 December 1933.

According to Coultas’ journal volume Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at Malala Bay on the northern end of Long Island, and the base camp was in the village of Malala, 05.15S, 147.10E ( PNG, 1984).