Myiolestes megarhynchus wuroi Mayr and Rand

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 : 47

Myiolestes megarhynchus wuroi Mayr and Rand

Myiolestes megarhynchus wuroi Mayr and Rand, 1936: 247 (Wuroi, Oriomo Fluss, Western Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Colluricincla megarhyncha goodsoni (Hartert, 1930) . See Mees, 1982: 141–143, Coates, 1990: 220–224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422144 , adult female, collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 4 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2733).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Mayr and Rand had four males, four immature males, four females, and one immature from Wuroi and one male from Dogwa , all 14 of which came to AMNH. The 13 paratypes are: Wuroi , eight males, AMNH 422133–422140 , four females, AMNH 422141–422143 , 422145 ; Dogwa , one male, AMNH 422146 . Of these, AMNH 422138 and 422146 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s ; I did not find AMNH 422137 in the collection.

Archbold and Rand (1935) provided a summary of the expedition, and Mayr and Rand (1937) reported on the birds. Mees (1982: 141–143) and Coates (1990: 224) synonymized wuroi with the nominate subspecies; Dickinson (2003: 489) and Boles (2007: 431) included it in the range of goodsoni.