Pachycephala rufinucha niveifrons Hartert, 1930

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 : 11

Pachycephala rufinucha niveifrons Hartert

Pachycephala rufinucha niveifrons Hartert, 1930b: 57 (Wondiwoi Mountains, Wandammen) .

Now Aleadryas rufinucha niveifrons (Hartert, 1930) . See Dickinson, 2003: 474, and Boles, 2007: 410–411.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659442 , adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 July 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1465). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, listing one male and two females in his type series. Mayr’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Rothschild and L.C. Sanford for AMNH, and the collection and types were divided equally, with a third set of selected specimens sent to MZB ( Hartert, 1930a: 19). The Sanford part of the collection came directly to AMNH, and the Rothschild portion came in 1932 with the purchase of that collection. The paratypes are AMNH 294196 and AMNH 659443, both collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains on 16 July 1928 by Mayr (nos. 1548 and 1550, respectively). AMNH 294196 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.

Mayr (1930: 24) landed at Wasior, 02.38S, 134.27E (Times Atlas), on the peninsula that juts into Geelvink Bay to the east of Wandammen Bay, and entered the Wondiwoi Mountains from there.