Ptiloprora guisei praedicta Hartert

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Ptiloprora guisei praedicta Hartert

Ptiloprora guisei praedicta Hartert, 1930b: 49 (Wondiwoi (Wandammen)).

Now Ptiloprora perstriata praedicta Hartert, 1930 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 414, Diamond, 1969: 46– 55, and Higgins et al., 2008: 658–659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 294316 , adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 8 July 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1394).

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and included measurements for three males and one female. There were however five specimens ; the four paratypes, all collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains in July 1928, are: AMNH 294317 (Mayr’s no. 1470), male ; AMNH 294318 (1466), male ; AMNH 696644 (1449), female [male, initialed by Hartert] ; AMNH 696645 (1412), female .

Mayr’s expedition was jointly funded by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and Rothschild, with the collection divided between them and a third set sent to MZB. Apparently, all of the specimens of this form are now in AMNH. 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.