Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 15

Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand

Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand, 1935: 8 (Mt. Albert Edward, southwest slope, Altitude 3680 meters, Territory of Papua).

Now Megalurus macrurus alpinus Mayr and Rand, 1935 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420136 , adult male, collected on the southwest slope of Mount Albert Edward , 3680 m, 08.35S, 147.20E (Times Atlas), Wharton Range, Papua New Guinea, on 2 July 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand. From the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 745).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. A total of six males and eight females was collected on Mt. Albert Edward and at Murray Pass. The 13 paratypes are: AMNH 420131–420135 and 420142–420149. AMNH 420146 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.

The collecting localities of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition are described by Archbold and Rand (1935: 565–572), and the entire bird collection is reported on by Mayr and Rand (1937).