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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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 About AMNH , 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 About AMNH ; female, AMNH 789567 About AMNH ; 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.