Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 124

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Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae brevipennis Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 513 View in CoL (Snow Mountains, Dutch New Guinea).

Now Philemon buceroides novaeguineae (Müller, 1843) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 408–410, Diamond, 1972: 380–384, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, Dickinson, 2003: 436, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697127, adult male, collected in the Maoke ( 5 Snow) Mountains, 04.00S, 138.00E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province ( 5 Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 4 September 1910, by Albert S. Meek (no. 4713). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that they had three specimens ( one male and two females) from the Snow Mountains and three specimens ( two males and one female) from the upper Setekwa River, giving the Meek numbers for them. The following specimens, all collected in 1910, are paratypes: Setekwa River, males, AMNH 697124 (Meek’s no. 4410), 23 July, AMNH 697125 (4432), 26 July; female, AMNH 697126 (4431), 26 July; Snow Mountains, 2000 ft, females, AMNH 697128 (4714), 4 September, AMNH 697129 (4687), 1 September.

Diamond (1972: 380–384) recognized the species P. novaeguineae and reviewed the subspecies from the Vogelkop and southern New Guinea, synonymizing all of them with nominate novaeguineae . Subsequently, P. novaeguineae has been recognized as a full species or included in the large species P. buceroides (see Schodde and Mason, 1999: 290, for a discussion). Dickinson (2003: 436) recognized P. buceroides brevipennis but Coates (1990: 254) and Higgins et al. (2008: 680) did not.

Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 473) noted that most of Meek’s 1910 collection was made on the Setekwa River, 04.54S, 137.19E (USBGN, 1982a), a tributary of the Utakwa ( 5 Oetakwa) River.