Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand, 1936

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Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand

Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand, 1936: 4 (Mafulu, alt. 1250 meters, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand, 1936 . See Coates, 1990: 287, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592– 593.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 421092 , 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 11 November 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2123).

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed two males (including the type) and four females from Mafulu , one male from the Aroa River , and one immature female from the Hydrographer Range. Paratypes in AMNH are: Mafulu, females, AMNH 421093 , collected 24 October 1933 ; AMNH 421348 , collected 8 October 1933 ; AMNH 421349 , collected 1 November 1933 ; head of Aroa River , male, AMNH 695829 , collected 15 May 1905 ; Hydrographer Range , female, AMNH 695830 , collected 25 February 1918 .

Rand did not give AMNH catalog numbers for specimens other than the type, and I have not found, in either the collection or the catalog, one male and one female paratype listed for this subspecies from Mafulu.

For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Archbold and Rand (1935), and for an account of all of the birds collected, see Mayr and Rand (1937).