Meliphaga montana germanorum Hartert, 1930

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Meliphaga montana germanorum Hartert

Meliphaga montana germanorum Hartert, 1930b: 47 (Cyclops Mountains) .

Now Meliphaga montana germanorum Hartert, 1930 . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370, Dickinson, 2003: 433, and Higgins et al., 2008: 593.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695818 , adult male, collected in the Cycloop (5 Cyclops) Mountains , 02.32S, 140.36E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 30 August 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2097). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. In addition to Mayr’s single specimen, he also included in his new subspecies a specimen collected by C. Wahnes on the Sattelberg and a specimen collected by J. Bürgers on the Huntsteinspitze, as well as by inference, specimens collected by Mayr ‘‘on the Sattelberg and in another locality in the ‘Mandated Territory’.’’ The Aicora River specimens (see below) were mentioned but not included in germanorum. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 695819 , female, Sattelberg, 22 March, by Wahnes (no. 191) ; AMNH 448977 , male, Hunsteinspitze, 2 March 1913, by Bürgers (no. 1364). This latter specimen is also the holotype of sepik, see above. The specimens collected by Mayr (1931c: 662) at Junzaing and on the Sattelberg, housed in ZMB, are also paratypes of germanorum .