Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 74-75

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scientific name	Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert
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Ptilotis aruensis sharpei Rothschild and Hartert, 1903b: 442 (Dorey) .

Now Meliphaga aruensis sharpei (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) View in CoL . See Rand, 1936: 10–11, Coates, 1990: 283–284, and Higgins et al., 2008: 590.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695788 View Materials , adult male, collected at Doreh Bay (5 Dorey), 00.55S, 134.04E ( USBGN, 1982a), Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia, in October 1896, by William Doherty. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert designated as type the single specimen collected by Doherty at Doreh Bay, and they listed 15

additional specimens in their type series. There are actually 17 specimens that would have been in the Rothschild Collection when the name was published, AMNH 695784 View Materials and 695809 being the additional specimens. Paratypes are: Waigeo Island (5 Waigeu), male and female, AMNH 695784 View Materials , 695785 View Materials ; Batanta Island , male and female, AMNH 695786 View Materials , 695787 View Materials ; Arfak , sex?, AMNH 695789 View Materials ; Ansus , Yapen Island (5 Jobi), male, AMNH 695790 View Materials ; Keboi Island , near Yapen, male, AMNH 695791 View Materials ; Takar , sex?, AMNH 695792 View Materials ; Goodenough Island , females, AMNH 695804 View Materials , 695805 View Materials ; Fergusson Island , four males, three females, AMNH 695806–695812 View Materials . Rothschild and Hartert also included specimens in the HNHM from Erima (southern Astrolabe Bay) in their type series ; however, this collection was entirely destroyed by fire in 1956 ( Horváth, 1970: 363).