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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 3209345" data-attributes="member: 31036">1954 Aethopyga gouldiae melittae Koelz, 1, p. 21 .I have not found this journal, but the University of Michigan types uses a different subspecies name.  Aethopyga gouldiae trochiloidea Koelz, Contrib. Inst. Regional Expl., 1, p. 21, 24 September 1954 .<a href="http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/56418/MP174.pdf" target="_blank">http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/56418/MP174.pdf</a> .  This document lists the other two taxa but does not say much.   "...the serial, Contributions from the Institute for Regional Exploration, was established, published, and presumably edited by Professor Harley H. Bartlett of the University ofMichigan Department of Botany. Number 1, the only issue published, contains three articles, all by Walter N. Koelz: I. New birds from Iran,Afghanistan, and India, pp. 1-32; 11. A new subspecies of Red-bellied Woodpecker from 'Texas, p. 32; and 111. On the validity of Galerida malaharicapropinqua Koclz, p. 33. It was printed by Edwards Brothers, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and dated September 1954. A few copies are availablefrom the Bird Division, Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A." The type of A. gouldiae melittae is not at Michigan Univ. but at AMNH.<a href="http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Aego/aego00132a.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Aego/aego00132a.jpg</a> .</blockquote>

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