Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen, 1966a: 5 (Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, northeastern New Guinea). Now Lichenostomus versicolor vulgaris (Salomonsen, 1966). See Coates, 1990: 278–279, Dickinson, 2003: 432, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 601. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 268962, adult male, collected at Finschhafen, 06.35S, 147.51E (Times Atlas), Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1929, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 996). COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that the range was Yapen (5 Japen) Island, coastal northern New Guinea from Geelvink Bay to Huon Gulf, and Fergusson Island. Paratypes are: Seroi, Yapen Island, AMNH 303191–303195, two males, three females, collected by G. Stein in February 1931; Hollandia, AMNH 342905, female, collected by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson in July 1938; Madang, AMNH 267979–267982, one immature male, two adult males, one female, collected by Beck in October and December 1928; Finschhafen, AMNH 267983–267987, five males, collected by Beck in February 1929; Fergusson Island, AMNH 330251, male, collected by H. Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition in January 1929, AMNH 695741, male, collected by A.S. Meek in May 1913; Hosken Island, Huon Gulf, AMNH 695740, female, collected by Meek in July 1913. Higgins et al. (2008: 601) tentatively synonymized vulgaris with sonoroides.

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Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 84