Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand View in CoL

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940: 13 View in CoL (Bele River, 18 km. north of Lake Habbema, 2200 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 438 and Higgins et al., 2008: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305655 About AMNH , adult male, collected on the Ibele ( 5 Bele ) River , 18 km north of Lake Habbema , 2200 m, 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982a), Maoke ( 5 Snow ) Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia ( 5 Netherlands New Guinea), on 23 November 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8254). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. In the later report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 expedition, Rand (1942b: 509) listed seven males and 11 females collected, in addition to the type specimen. Paratypes are: near Lake Habbema, 18 October–6 November 1938, AMNH 342966–342968 About AMNH , males, AMNH 342969–342972 About AMNH , females ; Ibele River , 12–29 November 1938, AMNH 342973–342976 About AMNH , males, AMNH 342977–342983 About AMNH , females. Of these, AMNH 342970 About AMNH was sent to MZB, and AMNH 342967 About AMNH and AMNH 342983 About AMNH were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .