Meliphaga montana setekwa Rand

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

Meliphaga montana setekwa Rand

Meliphaga montana setekwa Rand, 1936: 6 (Upper Setekwa River, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Meliphaga albonotata (Salvadori, 1876) . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370, and Higgins et al., 2008: 591.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 448978 , adult female, collected on the upper Setekwa River , Papua Province (5 Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 12 July 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4345). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, saying that his type series comprised two adult female specimens. The paratype is AMNH 695813, also collected by Meek on the upper Setekwa River.

Meek’s upper Setekwa River collection was reported on by Rothschild and Hartert (1913) ; the Setekwa River is at 04.54S, 137.19E ( USBGN, 1982a) .