Megalurus timoriensis mayri Hartert

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 : 14

Megalurus timoriensis mayri Hartert

Megalurus timoriensis mayri Hartert, 1930b: 79 (Ifaar) .

Now Megalurus macrurus mayri Hartert, 1930 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 293901 , adult male, collected at Ifaar , 02.34S, 140.31E ( USBGN, 1982), Lake Sentani, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 26 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2625).

COMMENTS: Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description. See previous type entry for the deposition of Mayr’s specimens. The holotype of M. t. mayri came directly to AMNH. Hartert listed nine males, seven females, and six immature males, presumably including the holotype. Of the 21 paratypes, 18 came to AMNH: AMNH 293895–293897 , 293897 bis, 293898–293900, 293902, 293903, directly via Sanford ; and 597809–597817, via the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 293898 and 597810 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s. Three paratypes are unaccounted for and are possibly in ZMB or MZB .

Ifaar was the government station on Lake Sentani in former Dutch New Guinea.