Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand, 1936

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

publication ID

0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475823

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFF1-FF87-FF56-FE6A39A5FAD1

treatment provided by

Tatiana

scientific name

Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand
status

 

Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand View in CoL

Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand, 1936: 17 View in CoL (Zakaheme, 4000 ft. (5 1219 meters), Huon Peninsula, New Guinea).

Now Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand, 1936 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 287–289, and Higgins et al., 2008: 590–591.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 267970 View Materials , adult male, collected at Zagahemi (5 Zakaheme), 4000 ft, 06.20S, 147.40E ( USBGN, 1943), Huon Peninsula , Papua New Guinea, on 5 April 1929, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 1703). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed one male (the holotype), two females from Zagahemi; two males, six females from Junzaing; and nine males, three females from Wau. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 267971, 267972, females, Zagahemi, 23 February and 1 March 1929, by Rollo Beck. Mayr’s (1931c: 662) specimens from Junzaing are in ZMB, and Stevens’ ( Greenway, 1935: 100) specimens from Wau on the main cordillera south of the Huon Peninsula are in MCZ.

In 1928–1929, after leaving the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Beck collected on the Huon Peninsula and in the Adelbert Mountains in Papua New Guinea for AMNH.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Meliphaga

Loc

Meliphaga orientalis becki Rand

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Meliphaga orientalis becki

Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 590
Coates, B. J. 1990: 287
1990
Loc

Meliphaga orientalis becki

Rand, A. L. 1936: 17
1936
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