Pomatorhinus isidori calidus Rothschild

Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292), pp. 1-132 : 72

Pomatorhinus isidori calidus Rothschild

Pomatorhinus isidori calidus Rothschild, 1931: 266 (Siriwo River, 45 miles above mouth, south of Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Garritornis isidorei calidus ( Rothschild, 1931) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 401, and Dickinson, 2003: 450.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302875 , adult male, collected 45 miles above the mouth of the Siriwo River , southeastern Teluk Cenderwasih (5 Geelvink Bay), Papua Prov., Indonesia, on 14 June 1930, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 19).

COMMENTS: Rothschild had a single specimen. Fred Shaw Mayer’s collecting trip was jointly sponsored by Dr. Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH and by Rothschild. The collection as a whole was reported on by Rothschild (1931), but specimens representing the AMNH share were stamped with an ‘‘s’’ within a circle, as this specimen is. These specimens came separately to AMNH and were separately cataloged (not with the Rothschild Collection, which reached AMNH about the same time). Shaw Mayer’s field label is a printed label supplied him by the Rothschild Museum, but this type bears only an AMNH type label, not a Rothschild type label. The mouth of the Siriwo River is at ca. 038009S, 1358509E.

Coates (1990: 76) and Coates and Peckov­ er (2001: 125) retained this species in Po­ matostomus. The babblers of Australia and New Guinea, genus Pomatostomus (including Garritornis ), are placed in the family Pomatostomidae by Sibley and Monroe (1990: 449) and Schodde and Mason (1999: 399).