Philemon brassi Rand, 1940

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Philemon brassi Rand

Philemon brassi Rand, 1940: 13 (Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Altitude 50 meters, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Philemon brassi Rand, 1940 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 404, and Higgins et al., 2008: 684.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305643 , adult male, collected at Bernhard Camp , 50 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 29 April 1939, by Richard Archbold, W.B. Richardson, and Austin L. Rand on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition (no. 1144).

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that this form was known only from the type locality. In his report on the birds collected on the 1938–1939 expedition, Rand (1942b: 510–511) listed eight adult males, one immature male, 11 adult females, two immature females, and one sex?, collected between 22 March and 29 April 1939. There are 22 paratypes: AMNH 343083–343104 . Of these, AMNH 343085 , male, and 343097, female, were exchanged to FMNH ; AMNH 343091 , female, and 343104, sex?, were exchanged to MZB ; and AMNH 343088 , male, was exchanged to BMNH .