Munia caniceps kumusii Hartert

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 121

Munia caniceps kumusii Hartert

Munia caniceps kumusii Hartert, 1911: 47 (Kumusi River, north coast of British New Guinea).

Now Lonchura caniceps kumusii ( Hartert, 1911) . See Hartert, 1919a: 143; Mayr et al., 1968: 383; Coates, 1990: 339–340; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 376.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721282 , adult male, collected on the Kumusi River , 08.30S, 148.10E ( PNG General Reference Map,

1984), Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, on 5 August 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3372). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Meek’s field number of the holotype and said that he examined 10 specimens (apparently in addition to the holotype). The 10 paratypes are: Kumusi River, AMNH 721283–721292, six males, four females, 1 and 5 June and 24 July 1907, by Albert S. Meek.

This species was not included when Rothschild and Hartert (1912) reported on Meek’s Kumusi River expedition.