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Titre :	Ernst Mayr and Forbes' forest-rail - an ornithological anecdote from New Guinea
Auteurs :	Frank Steinheimer, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ornithologischer Anzeiger (43(2) August 2004)
Article en page(s) :	93-102
Résumé :	Ernst Mayr encountered an undescribed taxon of forest-rail during his exploration of the avifauna of New Guinea which he named dryas (Mayr, 1931). This paper gives the story of the extraordinary discovery of Rallina forbesi dryas in the Saruwaged Mountains of the Huon Peninsula, NE-New Guinea, in 1929, to which are added some historical and taxonomical aspects as well as thorough descriptions of the specimens of Rallina forbesi dryas now housed in the Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.

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