Melidectes torquatus nuchalis Mayr, 1936

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Melidectes torquatus nuchalis Mayr

Melidectes torquatus nuchalis Mayr, 1936: 7 (Weyland Mountains (1500 m.)).

Now Melidectes torquatus nuchalis Mayr, 1936 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 419, and Higgins et al., 2008: 614–615.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302526 , adult male, collected on Mount Kunupi , 1500 m, Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains, 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 3 October 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1830).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements for one male and three females. These Weyland Mountain specimens collected by Stein were originally identified by Hartert et al. (1936: 195) as M. t. cahni, with one male and four females collected. Stein’s fieldwork was supported by Rothschild and by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and the collection was to be divided between the two collections with a selection going to ZMB. By the time Mayr described this form, the Rothschild and Sanford portions of the collection had come to AMNH, but apparently a female specimen had remained in ZMB. That specimen has no type standing. The three paratypes, collected on Mount Kunupi in September and October 1931, are: females, AMNH 302527 (Stein no. 1831), AMNH 302528 (1829), AMNH 302529 (1833).