Anthreptes meeki 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 : 48

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scientific name	Anthreptes meeki Hartert
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Anthreptes meeki Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 239 (Ins. Fergusson).

Now Oedistoma pygmaeum meeki (Hartert, 1896) View in CoL . See Hartert, 1919a: 174, Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 337–338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691209 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Fergusson Island , on 6 October 1894, by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited the unique collection date of 6 October 1894 for the type specimen but did not say how many specimens he examined. There are four paratypes collected by Meek on Fergusson in 1894 now in AMNH: males, AMNH 691208 About AMNH , 691210 About AMNH , 5 About AMNH and 22 October ; females, AMNH 691211 About AMNH , 691214 About AMNH , – September and 4 October .

On Fergusson, Meek (1913: 45, 58) had his base near Nade (Nadi in Meek, 1913), ca. 09.40S, 150.42E, on the southwest coast, and stayed there four months in 1894.