Paradisaea rudolphi subsp. margaritae Mayr and Gilliard

Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 11 (Kimil River, 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea). Now Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Mayr and Gilliard, 1951. See Mayr, 1962d: 202; Gilliard, 1969: 248–257; Diamond, 1972: 341–342; Coates, 1990: 532–538; Cracraft, 1992: 38; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 488–498; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 491–492. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348209, adult female, collected on the Kimil River, 5800 ft, 05.45S, 144.31E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 568), 20 miles west-northwest of Nondugl, Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (formerly Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea), on 20 April 1950, by collectors for N.B. Blood. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. This specimen and the paratype were gifts to the Gilliard Expedition by N.B. Blood; both had died in captivity in the Nondugl aviaries. The paratype is AMNH 705628, immature male, 28 April 1950. Only the two specimens collected in 1950 are part of the type series of margaritae.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 pages 109-110, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995