Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan

Melanocharis nigra pallida Stresemann and Paludan View in CoL

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

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 301115 About AMNH , 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 About AMNH (Stein no. 1484), male, 25 May ; AMNH 301117 About AMNH (1483), female, 22 May ; AMNH 301118 About AMNH (1480), female?, 24 May ; AMNH 301119 About AMNH (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.