Edolisoma melan waigeuense Stresemann and Paludan

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 : 69

Edolisoma melan waigeuense Stresemann and Paludan

Edolisoma melan waigeuense Stresemann and Paludan, 1932: 17 (Waigeu) .

Now Coracina melas waigeuense (Stresemann and Paludan, 1932) . See Rand and Gilliard, 1967: 319.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 300763 , adult female, collected on Waigeo Island , 00°13′S, 130°50′E ( Seltzer, 1962: 2052), western Papuan islands, West Papua, Indonesia, on 21 May 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1047). From the Expedition G. Stein.

COMMENTS: The above female and a male paratype, AMNH 300762, were obtained. The Steins (in Rothschild et al., 1932: 129) placed their camp from the 20–28 May at about 300 m in the mountainous land behind Warmek, a village on the east coast of the northern part of Majalibit Bay.

See David and Gosselin (2002: 41) concerning the correct spelling of the specific name.