Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and

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Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard

Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 14 (Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Zosterops novaeguineae wahgiensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 . See Mees, 1961a: 112–115, Coates, 1990: 330–332, and van Balen, 2008: 461.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348223, adult male, collected at Nondugl, 5200 ft, 05.50S, 144.45E ( PNG, 1984), Wahgi Valley, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1950, by E. Thomas Gilliard on the Gilliard Mount Hagen Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range of the subspecies was said to be the south slopes of the Bismarck Mountains. The following specimens, all collected in 1950, are paratypes: males, AMNH 705996, Base Camp, Mount Hagen, 24 July; AMNH 705997, Nondugl, 24 April; AMNH 705998, Nondugl, 26 April; females, AMNH 705999, Nondugl, 24 April; AMNH 706000, Non- dugl, 24 April; unsexed, AMNH 706001, Nondugl, 27 April, AMNH 706002, Nondugl, 1 May. AMNH 706002 was sent to AM in 1953.

Mayr and Gilliard (1954) published the results of the Gilliard 1950 and 1952 expeditions to New Guinea.