Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild

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 : 124

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Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 513 View in CoL (Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Philemon buceroides novaeguineae (Müller, 1843) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 408–410, Diamond, 1972: 380–384, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, Dickinson, 2003: 436, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697127, adult male, collected in the Maoke (5 Snow) Mountains, 04.00S, 138.00E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province (5 Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 4 September 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4713). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had three specimens (one male and two females) from the Snow Mountains and three specimens (two males and one female) from the upper Setekwa River, giving the Meek numbers for them. The following specimens, all collected in 1910, are paratypes: Setekwa River, males, AMNH 697124 (Meek’s no. 4410), 23 July, AMNH 697125 (4432), 26 July; female, AMNH 697126 (4431), 26 July; Snow Mountains, 2000 ft, females, AMNH 697128 (4714), 4 September, AMNH 697129 (4687), 1 September.

Diamond (1972: 380–384) recognized the species P. novaeguineae and reviewed the subspecies from the Vogelkop and southern New Guinea, synonymizing all of them with nominate novaeguineae . Subsequently, P. novaeguineae has been recognized as a full species or included in the large species P. buceroides (see Schodde and Mason, 1999: 290, for a discussion). Dickinson (2003: 436) recognized P. buceroides brevipennis but Coates (1990: 254) and Higgins et al. (2008: 680) did not.

Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473) noted that most of Meek’s 1910 collection was made on the Setekwa River, 04.54S, 137.19E (USBGN, 1982a), a tributary of the Utakwa (5 Oetakwa) River.