Climacteris placens steini Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 102

Climacteris placens steini Mayr

Climacteris placens steini Mayr, 1936: 5 (Mt. Sumuri, Weyland Mountains) .

Now Cormobates placens steini (Mayr, 1936) . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 71, and Noske, 2007b: 657–658.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 302465 , adult male, collected on Mt. Sumuri , 2300 m, Kobowre (5 Weyland) Mountains, 03.50S, 135.55E ( USBGN, 1982), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 28 August 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1680).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he examined three specimens, two males and one female. The two paratypes, both from the Kobowre Mountains, are: AMNH 302463 (Stein no. 1684), male, 4 October 1931 ; and AMNH 302464 (1681), female, 15 September 1931 .

Stein’s ‘‘Weyland Mountains Expedition’’ was jointly supported by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH, ZMB, and Walter Rothschild and was divided among the three institutions, with Rothschild’s share coming to AMNH ( Hartert et al., 1936: 166). In the case of this species, four specimens were collected ( Hartert et al., 1936: 223–224), but only three were included in Mayr’s description. All three are stamped with an ‘‘S’’ within a circle, indicating that they were in Sanford’s share of the collection. The fourth specimen was apparently not available to Mayr when he prepared the description and is probably in Berlin. It has no nomenclatural standing. Stein (1933: 264–310, 1936) published on this expedition, including its itinerary.