Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and Hartert

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630245
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1970-FF9C-68C2-92EB1BEDF988
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and Hartert
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Ailuroedus buccoides molestus Rothschild and Hartert, 1929a: 59 (Haidana, Collingwood Bay).

Now Ailuroedus buccoides geislerorum A.B. Meyer, 1891 . See Rothschild and Hartert, 1912b: 209; Mayr, 1941: 187; Gilliard, 1969: 258–263; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 228–233; 2009a: 393.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679783 , adult male, collected at Haidana, Collingwood Bay , Papua New Guinea, on 17 April 1907, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2858). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s field number of the type in the original description but did not mention other specimens. However, in their original report on Meek’s collection at Haidana, they ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1912b: 209) listed a male and two females, giving Meek’s numbers for them. The two females are considered paratypes of molestus: AMNH 679784 , 679785 , collected on 15 and 18 April 1907 by Meek.

Rothschild and Hartert (1929a: 59) restricted the type locality of geislerorum to Astrolabe Bay. Haidana continues to be a problematic locality (see LeCroy, 2008: 216).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus	Ailuroedus