Megalurus timoriensis stresemanni 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 stresemanni Hartert

Megalurus timoriensis stresemanni Hartert, 1930b: 79 (Kofo (Anggi gidji)).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597818 , adult male, collected at Koffo (5 Kofo), Lake Giji (5 Anggi gidji), 01.23S, 133.53E (Times Atlas), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 12 June 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1107). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype was given in the original description. Six specimens were collected, presumably including the holotype. Mayr’s expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1928 was sponsored by Dr. Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH and by Lord Walter Rothschild. His collections, including the types, were divided between AMNH and the Rothschild Collection, with representative sets of specimens also going to MZB and ZMB. Specimens that were in the Rothschild Collection are now in AMNH. Of the five paratypes of this form, all of them from the type locality, one came directly to AMNH: AMNH 293904 (Mayr no. 1086), adult male ; three came via the Rothschild Collection: AMNH 597819 (1113) and 597820 (1082), adult males, and AMNH 597822 (1100), adult female (but sex questioned by Hartert, 1930: 79), all collected on 11 and 12 June 1928. The remaining paratype is probably in ZMB .