Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand

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Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand

Xanthotis polygramma candidior Mayr and Rand, 1935: 15 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Western Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Xanthotis polygrammus candidior Mayr and Rand, 1935 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 389, Coates, 1990: 278, and Higgins et al., 2008: 688–689.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422322 , female, collected at Wuroi , ca. 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964a: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2790).

COMMENTS: Mayr and Rand gave the AMNH catalog number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had a single paratype: AMNH 422321, female, Wuroi, Oriomo River, 27 January 1934.

For a report on all of the birds collected on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Mayr and Rand (1937), and for a summary of this expedition and a description of collecting localities, see Archbold and Rand (1935).