Erythrura trichroa eichhorni Hartert, 1924

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 111-112

Erythrura trichroa eichhorni Hartert

Erythrura trichroa eichhorni Hartert, 1924b: 274 (St. Matthias Island).

Now Erythrura trichroa eichhorni Hartert, 1924 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 364; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 399; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 348–349.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722157 , adult male, collected on Mussau (5 St. Matthias) Island, 01.30S, 149.40E ( PNG General Reference Map , 1984), St. Matthias Islands , New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 July 1923, by Albert F. Eichhorn (no. 8635). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type of eichhorni Eichhorn’s specimen no. 8635 and listed his type series as six adults and two immatures from Mussau and two specimens from Squally (or Storm) Island. The nine paratypes, all collected by Eichhorn in 1923, are: Mussau Island, AMNH 722158–722164 , three adult males, two adult females, two immature females, 25 June–18 July ; Squally Island , AMNH 722165 , male, AMNH 722166 , immature male, 19 August .

Hartert (1924b: 261–275) reported on Eichhorn’s collection on Mussau, and in a separate paper, he ( Hartert, 1924c: 276–278) reported on the collection from Squally Island, which he described as a raised coral reef between Mussau and New Hanover, but closer to Mussau, where Eichhorn was marooned for some time in 1923. The birds from the two localities did not differ.

Erythrura trichroa woodfordi Rothschild and