Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Pachycephala feminina
Mayr
Pachycephala feminina
Mayr, 1931a: 25
(Rennell Island).
Now
Pachycephala orioloides feminina
Mayr, 1931
.
See
Galbraith, 1956: 198
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395
,
Dickinson, 2003: 477
,
Boles, 2007: 421
, and
Jønsson et al., 2008
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 226275
, adult male, collected on
Rennell Island
,
Solomon Islands
, on
30 August 1928
, by
Hannibal Hamlin
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 35365).
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description, Mayr adding that his series was collected on Rennell in
August 1928
and
May 1930
.
Paratypes
are:
AMNH 226269–226274
,
226276–226296
,
226504
, and
226505
. AMNH 226278 and 226293 were exchanged to ZMB in
July 1936
.
On both visits to Rennell by the Whitney Expedition, its schooner ‘‘
France
’’ was anchored in Lughu Bay,
11.40S
,
160.17E
(
5
Kanggava Bay, USBGN, 1974, or Kungava Bay,
Mayr and Hamlin, 1931: 3
).
Galbraith (1956: 198)
,
Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395)
, and
Boles (2007: 421)
considered
feminina
a subspecies of
P. pectoralis
, while
Dickinson (2003: 477)
and
Jønsson et al. (2008)
considered it a subspecies of a Solomon Island species,
P. orioloides
.