Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941

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Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941: 13 (15 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea, altitude 1500 meters).

Now Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941 . See Dickinson, 2003: 452, and Gregory, 2008: 338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305909 , adult male, collected 15 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 1500 m, ca 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg ) River , Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 29 January 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition.

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as the north slopes of the Snow Mountains , between 1200 and 1500 m, west to the Weyland Mountains , between 1200 and 1700 m. Paratypes in AMNH are: Mount Kunupi, Weyland Mountains, AMNH 302484 , adult female, AMNH 302485 , adult female [immature male?], both 9 September 1931 ; 6–15 km sw Bernhard Camp , AMNH 342600 , adult male, 2 February 1939, AMNH 342601 , male?, 23 February 1939, AMNH 342602 , adult female, 27 February 1939, AMNH 342603 , adult female, 4 March 1939. Of these, AMNH 342603 was sent to MZB .

For a complete account of the birds collected on this expedition, see Rand (1942b), and for a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942). This Third Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with Netherlands Indies authorities and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. The genus Toxorhamphus is now included in the Melanocharitidae .