Myiolestes megarhynchus subsp. palmeri Rand
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Pachycephalidae
Myiolestes

description: <i>Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri</i> Rand <i>Myiolestes megarhynchus palmeri</i> Rand, 1938: 10 (Palmer River, two miles below the junction with Black River, south New Guinea). Now <i>Colluricincla megarhyncha palmeri</i> (Rand, 1938). See Mees, 1982: 141–143, Coates, 1990: 220–224, Dickinson, 2003: 489, and Boles, 2007: 431. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 427259</b>, adult male, collected on the Palmer River, 2 miles below the junction with the Black River, 05.45S, 141.45E (PNG, 1984), Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 18 July 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and George H.H. Tate on the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 4536). COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and the range of <i>palmeri</i> was given as the Fly River area from the headwaters to Lake Daviumbu on the west bank and to the mouth at Gaima on the east bank. Paratypes are: <b>AMNH 427255–427258</b>, <b>427260–427297</b>. Of these, AMNH 427255 and 427268 were exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s, and AMNH 427263 was sent to PNGM. A summary of this expedition was provided by Rand and Brass (1940) and a report on the birds by Rand (1942a). Mees (1982: 141–143) and Coates (1990: 220–224) considered <i>palmeri</i> a synonym of nominate <i>megarhyncha</i>, while Dickinson (2003: 489) and Boles (2007: 431) recognized <i>palmeri</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And &amp; 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)</i> on page 47
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