Pinarolestes megarhynchus despectus Rothschild and Hartert

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Pinarolestes megarhynchus despectus Rothschild and Hartert

Pinarolestes megarhynchus despectus Rothschild and Hartert, 1903a: 100 (Milne Bay, British New Guinea).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha despecta (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) . See Ford, 1979, Coates, 1990: 220–224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 657073 , adult male, collected at Milne Bay, 10.25S, 150.30E (PNG, 1984), Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 February 1899, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2323). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and listed a type series of 16 specimens. The 15 paratypes, all in AMNH, are: AMNH 657074 (Meek no. 2465), male, 12 April 1899, AMNH 657075 (2227), female, 1 February 1899, AMNH 657076 (2434), female, 1 April 1899, all from Milne Bay collected by Meek ; AMNH 657086 , female, 13 August 1896, AMNH 657088 , female, 20 August 1896, AMNH 657089 , AMNH 657090 , AMNH 657091 , sex?, August–September 1896, all from Mt. Cameron collected by A.S. Anthony ; AMNH 657087 , male, 30 July 1895, Mailu District collected by Anthony ; AMNH 657092 , Sogeri , collected by H.O. Forbes ; AMNH 657093 , AMNH 657094 , Eafa District , purchased in 1898 from McIlwraith and McEacharn ; AMNH 657095 , AMNH 657096 , Low country near Port Moresby (probably Brown River) by Emil Weiske, purchased in 1898 from McIlwraith and McEacharn ; and AMNH 657125 , British New Guinea, collected by A. Goldie. These 15 do not quite correspond to the list given by Rothschild and Hartert: there are five rather than four specimens in AMNH collected in August–September 1896 by A.S. Anthony on Mt. Cameron, and a specimen listed as collected by Weiske between the Laloki (5 Laroki, as published) and Vanapa rivers did not come to AMNH .