Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941

Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand View in CoL

Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941: 15 View in CoL (6 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, at 1200 meters, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Melanocharis longicauda umbrosa Rand, 1941 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 335–336.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305910 About AMNH , adult male, collected 6 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 1200 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Taritatu ( 5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 27 February 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 9715). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Four males and one female were measured ; however, 10 specimens were cataloged and would have been available to Rand for the description of umbrosa. The nine paratypes, all collected at the same locality, 18–28 February 1939, are: AMNH 343188 About AMNH ( Archbold no. 9571), immature male, AMNH 343189 About AMNH (9604), male, AMNH 343190 About AMNH (9713), male, AMNH 343191 About AMNH (9714), male, AMNH 343192 About AMNH (9749), immature male ; AMNH 343193 About AMNH (9590), female, AMNH 343194 About AMNH (9716), female, AMNH 343195 About AMNH (9717), female ; and AMNH 343196 About AMNH (–), male. AMNH 343189 About AMNH was sent to MZB in May 1957. Rand (1942b: 511–512), in his report on the entire bird collection from this expedition, listed four adult males, three immature males, and one adult female. I cannot explain the discrepancy ; the above information is taken from the specimen labels.

Archbold et al. (1942) published a summary of this 1938–1939 expedition; it was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie.