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Pachycephala griseiceps subsp. gagiensis Mayr

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Pachycephala griseiceps gagiensis Mayr

Pachycephala griseiceps gagiensis Mayr, 1940: 3 (Gagi Island, west of Waigeu).

Now Pachycephala simplex gagiensis Mayr, 1940. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 439–440, and Boles, 2007: 416.

Holotype: AMNH 658525, female, collected on Gag (5 Gagi) Island, 00.25S, 129.53E (Times Atlas), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 5 March 1863, by Heinrich A. Bernstein. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description; he had a single specimen. Rothschild had received this specimen from RMNH.

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 18

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1863-03-05
Family
Pachycephalidae
Genus
Pachycephala
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 658525
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mayr
Species
gagiensis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1863-03-05

References

  • Mayr, E. 1940. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XLII. Notes on New Guinea birds. VII. American Museum Novitates 1091: 1 - 3.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Boles, W. E. 2007. Family Pachycephalidae. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 374 - 437. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls, 436 photographs.