Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothschild

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 58

Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothschild

Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothschild, 1904: 79 (Upper Aroa River in British New Guinea).

Now Pitohui dichrous (Bonaparte, 1850) . See Mayr, 1967: 49, Coates, 1990: 228–229, Boles, 2007: 434, and Dumbacher et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656429 , adult male, collected at Avera , Aroa River, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 27 January 1903, by Albert S. Meek (no. A. 124). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Meek’s unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description, and he was said to have collected a series on the Upper Aroa River. Four paratypes collected there by Meek at Avera in 1903 came to AMNH: AMNH 656427 (Meek no. A 209), male, 6 January ; AMNH 656428 (A 237), male, 16 February ; AMNH 656430 (A 139) male, 28 January ; AMNH 656431 (A 58), female, 23 January. AMNH 656430 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s .

The late W.S. Peckover had researched the location of Avera and thought that it was at ca. 08.38S, 147.05E; this is very near Aveve, which he found to be at 08.40S, 147.05E.