Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940

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 : 10

Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand

Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940: 7 (Mafulu, altitude 1250 meters, central division, Territory of Papua, New Guinea).

Now Rhagologus leucostigma obscurus Rand, 1940 . See Coates, 1990: 204, and Boles, 2007: 411.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420745 , adult male, collected at Mafulu , 1250 m, 08.31S, 147.01E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569, converted to degrees and minutes), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 October 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 1847).

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements for eight males and 10 females from between 1200 and 2400 m, mountains of southeastern New Guinea and the Huon Peninsula , westward to the slopes above the Idenburg River on the north and Mt. Goliath on the south at 1500 m. There are additional specimens from these localities in AMNH that would also have been available to Rand. Paratypes are: AMNH 267733–267737 , Sevia, and AMNH 267738 , Zakaheme, Huon Peninsula, collected by R. Beck in 1929 ; AMNH 341476 , Idenburg River , collected by the Archbold Expedition in 1939 ; AMNH 420743 , Mt. Tafa , 420744, Iuvulu, near Ononge, 420746, Mt. Tafa, all collected on the Archbold Expedition in 1933 ; AMNH 659497–659500 , 659515 , Mt. Goliath , collected by A.S. Meek in 1911 ; AMNH 659501–659506 , Aroa and Angabunga rivers, collected by Meek in 1903 and 1905 ; and AMNH 659507–659510 , head of Mambare River , collected by Meek in 1906. Of these paratypes, AMNH 659503 and 659508 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, see Archbold and Rand (1935) .