Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris 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 : 45

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475745
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scientific name	Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris Rothschild and Hartert
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Melilestes novae-guineae flaviventris Rothschild and Hartert, 1911a: 44 (Tungei Bark, Kobrur, Aru Islands) .

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693603 View Materials , 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. GoogleMaps

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 View Materials , female, 2 June 1896 ; collected by H. Kühn, Trangan Island , AMNH 693600 View Materials , male, 14 September 1900 ; Tungei Bark, Kobror Island , AMNH 693601 View Materials , 693602 View Materials , males, 24– 26 August 1900 ; Wokan Island , AMNH 693604–693606 View Materials , two males, one female, 26 September–1 October 1900 .