Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr, 1931

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 : 104

Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr

Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr, 1931c: 669 (Aroariver) .

Now Melanocharis longicauda orientalis Mayr, 1931 . See Coates, 1990: 318–319, and Gregory, 2008: 335–336.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 698637 , adult male, collected at Avera , Aroa River, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 13 March 1903, by Albert S. Meek (no. A.411). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that orientalis was from the southern watershed of southeastern New Guinea (Aroa River, etc.). Because this description appeared in Mayr’s report on his 1929 collections in the Saruwaget and Herzog mountains and was prepared while Mayr was working at the ZMB, it is not clear how many southeastern New Guinea specimens from the Rothschild Collection he may have seen. The above-cited specimen bears Meek’s field label, a Rothschild Collection label marked ‘‘Typus, orientalis Mayr’’ in Mayr’s hand, and an AMNH type label with the name written by Mayr. Because Mayr intended this specimen to be the type, I hereby designate AMNH 698637 the lectotype of Melanocharis longicauda orientalis .

The late W.S. Peckover had researched the location of Avera and found it to be at ca. 08.38S, 147.05E, very near a place called Aveve at 08.40S, 147.05E.

Pristorhamphus versteri meeki Rothschild and