Meliphaga montana auga 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

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scientific name	Meliphaga montana auga Rand
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Meliphaga montana auga Rand, 1936: 6 (Mafulu, alt. 1250 meters, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Meliphaga albonotata (Salvadori, 1876) View in CoL . See Diamond, 1972: 367–370, Coates, 1990: 284– 286, and Higgins et al., 2008: 591.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 421337 View Materials , adult male, collected at Mafulu , 1250 m, 08.31S, 147.01E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569, converted to degrees and minutes), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 3 November 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2026). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had two males from Bella Vista and four males, three females, and three immatures from Mafulu. The 11 paratypes are: Bella Vista, males, AMNH 421094 View Materials , 421342 View Materials ; Mafulu, males, AMNH 421333 View Materials , 421334 View Materials , 421335 View Materials , 421336 View Materials (immature) ; females, AMNH 421095 View Materials , 421338 View Materials , 421339 View Materials (immature) ,

421340 (immature), 421341. Of these, AMNH 421339 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s and is now FMNH 280975 (D. Willard, personal commun.).

All of the birds collected on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition were reported on by Mayr and Rand (1937), and a summary of the expedition was given by Archbold and Rand (1935).