Artamides welchmani bougainvillei Mathews

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 59

Artamides welchmani bougainvillei Mathews

Artamides welchmani bougainvillei Mathews , l928: 373

(Bougainville Island, Solomon Group).

Now Coracina caledonica bougainvillei ( Mathews,

1928). See Coates, 1990: 36, and Mayr and Diamond,

2001: 388.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561084 , adult male, collected on Bougainville Island , North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, on 20 April 1904, by Albert S. Meek (no. A1602). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Designated the type by Mathews in the original description, this specimen was never part of the Mathews Collection. Although stamped with Meek’s name as the collector, the original label is not in Meek’s hand, but probably in that of one of the Eichhorns, brothers­in­law of Meek who often collected with him. On Meek’s labels, an ‘‘A’’ before the field number seems to always occur on labels that are not in Meek’s hand and probably indicates specimens collected by the Eichhorns.

The holotype is the only specimen collected on Bougainville on 20 April 1904. Although Mathews did not indicate how many specimens he studied, four additional Bougainville specimens in the Meek collection that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection would be paratypes: AMNH 561085 and 561086, males, collected 14 and 16 April 1904 ; and AMNH 561087 and 561088, male and female, collected 10 and 18 January 1908 .

Coracina welchmani kulambangrae Rothschild and Hartert

Coracina welchmani kulambangrae Rothschild and Hartert, 1916: 289 (Kulambangra) .

Now Coracina caledonica kulambangrae Rothschild and Hartert, 1916 . See Coates, 1990: 550, and Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 388.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 561089 , adult male, collected on Kolombangara Island (= Kulambangra

Island), 08°00′S, 157°10′E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 25 February 1901 by Albert S.

Meek (no. 2796). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Meek’s no. 2796 was given for the type in the original description. AMNH 561090–

561093 are paratypes.