Monarcha axillaris ernesti Rothschild

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 : 197

Monarcha axillaris ernesti Rothschild

Monarcha axillaris ernesti Rothschild, 1931: 264 (Gebroeders) .

Now Monarcha axillaris axillaris Salvadori, 1876 . See Mayr, 1941: 132, Watson et al., 1986c: 501, Coates, 1990: 148, and Filardi and Smith, 2005.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302894 , adult male, collected in the Gebroeders Mountains , 5000 ft, 03.39S, 135.56E ( USBGN, 1982a), Weyland Range, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 9 August 1930, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 291).

COMMENTS: A single specimen of this form was collected. Shaw Mayer’s 1930 collection in former Dutch New Guinea was made jointly through the auspices of Dr. Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH and Lord Walter Rothschild. Rothschild (1931) report- ed on this collection, which was to be divided between AMNH and Rothschild. The ‘‘S’’ within a circle, stamped on the field label of this specimen, indicates that it was in Sanford’s share, and it bears, in addition, only an AMNH type label.