Animals named for Richard Archbold: Archboldia [papuensis] papuensis Rand (Passeriformes: Ptilonorynchidae). Archbold's Bowerbird.

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The type specimen of this bowerbird was collected on the 3rd Archbold New Guinea Expedition (1938-39) along the Bele River at an elevation of 2200 m, 18 km N of Lake Habbema, Snow Mountains, Netherlands New Guinea (also Irian Jaya or Papua-since 2000) on 3 December 1938 by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W. B. Richardson. This genus of bowerbird was named for Richard Archbold. This species was "known only from the area between Mt. Wilhelmina and the Idenburg River between 2100 and 2800 meters." Later, in 1950, Mayr and Gilliard described a new subspecies of this bowerbird, A. p. sanfordi, from the southwest slopes of Mount Hagen (Papua New Guinea), at 2590 m, and about 400 km east of the type locality (Mayr, E. and E.T. Gilliard. 1950. A new bowerbird (Archboldia) from Mount Hagen, New Guinea. Amer. Mus. Novitates 1473:1-3.). <http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4295> Adult males of this subspecies posses a golden crest, a feature not known for A. p. papuensis. This subspecies was named for Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, who sponsored the Mount Hagen Expedition, and who, decades earlier, invited Richard Archbold's father, John F. Archbold, to sponsor the American component of the French-Anglo-American Expedition to Madagascar (1929-31), Richard Archbold's first biological expedition. A painting of A. p. sanfordi by George Miksch Sutton appeared as Plate 13 in Mayr, E. and E.T. Gilliard. 1954. Birds of central New Guinea. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 103(4):315-374. <http://hdl.handle.net/2246/331> See also; a recent photo of Archbold’s Bowerbird, and Gilliard, E.T. 1959. The courtship behavior of Sanford's bowerbird (Archboldia sanfordi). Amer. Mus. Novitates 1935:1-18. <http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5366> This image of A. p. sanfordi is from the 2007 mural, "Richard Archbold and the Archbold Biological Station" in Lake Placid, Florida, painted by Keith Goodson, and is based on a painting of a male bowerbird by G. M. Sutton (1954) and a photograph of a female by Clifford and Dawn Frith (Frith, D. and C. Frith. 1991. Say it with bowers. Wildlife Conservation 94(1):74-83.).