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 Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931b: 21 (Guadalcanar Island ( British Solomon Islands )). Now Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931 . See Amadon, 1962a: 81 ; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 400 ; Dickinson, 2003: 652 ; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 719 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 218560 , adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (= Guadalcanar) Island, Solomon Islands (= British Solomon Islands), on 23 July 1927 , by Rollo H. Beck and Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26862). COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 218552–218559, 223185–223195, 223207–223218 , 17 males , 14 females , 16–25 April, 17–30 May, and 12–25 July 1927 . On 23 July 1927 , the expedition ship France was anchored near Cape Hunter and personnel had gone east to the Itina River, 09.48S , 159.51 E (USBGN, 1974a), from the mouth of which they collected up to 4000 feet .