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Xanthomelas bakeri Chapin

Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Xanthomelas bakeri Chapin

Xanthomelas bakeri Chapin, 1929: 1 (Madang, Territory of New Guinea).

Now Sericulus bakeri (Chapin, 1929). See Mayr, 1941: 184; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 7–8; Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 74–75; Gilliard, 1969: 330– 335, pl. 13; Coates, 1990: 402–403; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 343–344; 2009a: 399–400.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 268253, adult male, collected at ‘‘ Madang, Territory of New Guinea,’’ now known to be from the Adelbert Mountains, 04.54S, 145.24E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 566), Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 29 August 1928, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 84).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chapin cited the AMNH number of the holotype and listed the two additional specimens that Beck collected. The two paratypes, both labeled as from ‘‘Madang’’ are: AMNH 268254 (Beck’s no. 134), immature male, 3 September 1928; AMNH 268255 (184), male, 10 September 1928. This last specimen had been exchanged to the Rothschild Collection, and when that collection came to AMNH, it was inadvertently renumbered as AMNH 679305.

After Rollo Beck left the American Museum’s Whitney South Sea Expedition, Museum Trustee George F. Baker, Jr., supported him on a collecting trip into what was at that time the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. He collected in the vicinity of Madang and on the Huon Peninsula, and his most important discovery was this new species of bowerbird. However, the exact collecting locality was not known, and additional specimens were not found until 1959, when E. Thomas Gilliard and his wife, Margaret, made a collection in the Memenga Forest, Adelbert Mountains, to the northwest of Madang (See Gilliard and LeCroy, 1967: 74– 75, and Gilliard, 1969: 330–335). The bower was first reported by Mackay (1989: 62–64) and Coates (1990: 403).

See cover for painting of this species by William T. Cooper.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 85, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A196AFF866A9B95F21C84FAD3

Is part of
Journal article: 10.1206/885.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4629954 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA12C52193FFFD36A7C900E1F21FF86 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/0398542A196AFF866A9B95F21C84FAD3 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/180667555 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7639/taxon/0398542A196AFF866A9B95F21C84FAD3.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1928-08-29 , 1928-09-03 , 1928-09-10
Family
Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus
Xanthomelas
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 268253 , AMNH 268254 , AMNH 268255, AMNH 679305
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Species
bakeri
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1928-08-29 , 1928-09-03 , 1928-09-10

References

  • Chapin, J. P. 1929. A new bower-bird of the genus Xanthomelas. American Museum Novitates 367: 1 - 3.
  • Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea birds. New York: American Museum of Natural History, xi + 260 pp.
  • Mayr, E., and K. Jennings. 1952. Geographic variation and plumages in Australian bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae). American Museum Novitates 1602: 1 - 18.
  • Gilliard, E. T., and M. LeCroy. 1967. Annotated list of birds of the Adelbert Mountains, New Guinea. Results of the 1959 Gilliard Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 138 (2): 51 - 82, pls. 9 - 14, 1 text fig.
  • Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
  • Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications Pty., 576 pp, photographs.
  • Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2004. The bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiii + 508 pp, 8 pls., maps, photographs.
  • Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 a. Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds). Species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 393 - 403. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
  • Frith, C. B., and B. M. Beehler. 1998. The birds of paradise Paradisaeidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxx + 613 pp, 15 pls, black-and-white illustrations, maps, sonograms.
  • Mackay, R. D. 1989. The bower of the Fire-maned Bowerbird Sericulus bakeri. Australian Bird Watcher 13 (2): 62 - 64.