Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway, 1966

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 : 72-73

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0003-0090

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scientific name

Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway
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Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway View in CoL

Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway, 1966: 22 View in CoL (2800 feet, near the summit of Mt. Besar, Batanta, off western New Guinea [West Irian]).

Now Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway, 1966 View in CoL . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370, Dickinson, 2003: 433, and Higgins et al., 2008: 593.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789558 View Materials , adult male, collected on Mount Batanta (5 Mt. Besar ), 2800 ft, 00.53S, 130.36E ( USBGN, 1982a), Batanta Island, Papua Province (5 West Irian), Indonesia, on 30 June 1964, by E. Thomas Gilliard. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Greenway gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed the eight male, one female, and one unsexed paratypes by AMNH number. Paratypes are: Mount Batanta , males, AMNH 789559–789566 View Materials ; female, AMNH 789567 View Materials ; unsexed, AMNH

789568 (the last two numbers were reversed in the original description). ‘‘Besar’’ means ‘‘big’’ in Indonesian; this mountain is usually referred to as Mount Batanta.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Meliphaga

Loc

Meliphaga montana margaretae Greenway

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Meliphaga montana margaretae

Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 593
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 433
Diamond, J. M. 1972: 367
1972
Loc

Meliphaga montana margaretae

Greenway, J. C., Jr. 1966: 22
1966
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