Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan

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 : 103

Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan

Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan (in Rothschild et al.), 1932: 151 (Waigeu).

Now Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan, 1932 . See Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 335.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 301115 , adult male, collected on Waigeo Island (5 Waigeu), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 15 May 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1481).

COMMENTS: Stein’s unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description and a list of his seven specimens given. Four of the six paratypes came to AMNH, all collected by Stein on Waigeo in 1931: AMNH 301116 (Stein no. 1484), male, 25 May ; AMNH 301117 (1483), female, 22 May ; AMNH 301118 (1480), female?, 24 May ; AMNH 301119 (1482), female, 25 May. The remaining two paratypes are probably in ZMB .

Rothschild et al. (1932: 129) noted that on 15 May the Steins were collecting at Warmek, on the eastern bank of the northern part of Mayalibit (5 Majalibit) Bay, 00.13S, 130.45E (USBGN, 1982). Stein (1933, 1936) also published on his expedition to Waigeo.