Neositta papuensis toxopeusi 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 : 91

Neositta papuensis toxopeusi Rand

Neositta papuensis toxopeusi Rand, 1940: 11 (Bele River, altitude 2200 meters, 18 km north of Lake Habbema, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Daphoenositta papuensis toxopeusi (Rand, 1940) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 429–430, Dickinson, 2003: 473, Noske, 2007a: 640–641, and Christidis and Boles, 2008: 192.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305654 , adult male, collected on the Ibele (5 Bele ) River , 2200 m, 18 km north of Lake Habbema , 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982), Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 1 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the third Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1938–1939 (no. 8462).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The type series comprised one adult male (the holotype), one immature male and one immature female molting into adult plumage, and one immature male. Paratypes are: AMNH 342335 , immature male, 1 December 1938, Archbold no. 8463, AMNH 342336 , older immature male, 3 December 1938, Archbold no. 8504, both from the same locality as the holotype ; AMNH 342337 , immature female, Lake Habbema , 2650 m, 21 October 1938, Archbold no. 7538. The last specimen was sent to MZB in 1957 .

Rand (1942b) published a report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition, and Archbold et al. (1942) published a general summary of the expedition. This expedition was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie, a joint expedition with the government of the Netherlands East Indies.