Climacteris placens inexpectata Rand

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 : 102

Climacteris placens inexpectata Rand

Climacteris placens inexpectata Rand, 1940: 11 (Lake Habbema, 9 km. NE., altitude 2800 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Cormobates placens inexpectata (Rand, 1940) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 71, and Noske, 2007b: 657–658.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305650 , adult male, collected 9 km northeast of Lake Habbema , 2800 m, 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982), Maoke (5 Snow) Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 1 November 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson, on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and measurements were given for four males and seven females, including the holotype. These 11 specimens came to AMNH, as well as one unsexed specimen. The 11 paratypes, all collected in 1938, are: 9 km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, AMNH 342338 (Archbold no. 7633), male, 25 October ; AMNH 342339 (7698), male, 28 October ; AMNH 342340 (7355), female, 14 October ; AMNH 342341 (7422), female, 16 October ; AMNH 342342 (7643), female, 26 October ; AMNH 342343 (7803), female, 1 November ; AMNH 342344 (7852), female, 4 November ; AMNH 342345 (7500), unsexed, 19 October ; 18 km north of Lake Habbema, Ibele (5 Bele , as on label) River ; AMNH 342346 (8222), male, 22 November ; AMNH 342347 (8011), female, 13 November ; AMNH 342348 (8317), female, 25 November. AMNH 342338 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s, and AMNH 342345 was exchanged to MZB in May 1957 .

This 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. For further information, see Archbold et al. (1942) and Rand (1942b).