Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris Rothschild and Hartert

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Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris Rothschild and Hartert

Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris Rothschild and Hartert, 1911a: 44 (Tungei Bark, Kobrur, Aru Islands) .

Now Toxorhamphus novaeguineae flaviventris (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 341, Dickinson, 2003: 452, and Gregory, 2008: 338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693603 , adult male, collected at Tungei Bark , Kobroor (5 Kobrur) Island, 06.12S, 134.32E ( USBGN, 1982a), Aru Islands , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 August 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2380). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Rothschild and Hartert gave Kühn’s unique field number of the holotype and said that the form occurred on Kobrur, Trangan, and Wokan islands in the Aru Islands. Paratypes in AMNH are: collected by Capt. Caley Webster, Wokan Island, AMNH 693599 , female, 2 June 1896 ; collected by H. Kühn, Trangan Island , AMNH 693600 , male, 14 September 1900 ; Tungei Bark, Kobror Island , AMNH 693601 , 693602 , males, 24– 26 August 1900 ; Wokan Island , AMNH 693604–693606 , two males, one female, 26 September–1 October 1900 .

In Dickinson (2003: 452) and Gregory (2008: 338), the genus Toxorhamphus was included in the Melanocharitidae .