Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Phylloscopus trivirgatus becki
Hartert
Phylloscopus trivirgatus becki
Hartert, 1929: 13
(Guadalcanar)
.
Now
Phylloscopus poliocephalus becki
Hartert, 1929
. See
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 391
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 220107
, adult male, collected on
Guadalcanal
(
5
Guadalcanar)
Island
,
Solomon Islands
, on
20 July 1927
, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26817).
COMMENTS
:
The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description.
Hartert’s (1929)
paper in which this name was published dealt with
Solomon Islands
birds collected by the Whitney
South Sea Expedition
, which were never part of the
Rothschild Collection
;
thus, this type bears only an
AMNH
type label.
Only
part of the collection was sent to
England
for his study.
According
to
Hartert (1929: 13)
, the type series comprised
three males
and
one female
.
Nine specimens
were collected on
Guadalcanal
in
July 1927
, so it became necessary to determine which ones
Hartert
had in hand when he described this form.
The Whitney
label of the
holotype
has
Hartert’s
newly introduced name written in his characteristic hand and black ink and marked with a red line drawn across the end of the label
;
two male
specimens and the female? are labeled in the same ink and hand, and I have considered them the
paratypes
.
Their
measurements agree with those given by
Hartert
in the original description.
The
paratypes
are:
AMNH 220105
, male,
20 July 1927
, wing
58 mm
;
AMNH 220106
, male,
20 July 1927
, wing
59 mm
;
AMNH 220109
, female?,
19 July 1927
, wing
56 mm
.
The
wing of the
holotype
measures
59 mm
. I do not consider the following to be
paratypes
:
AMNH 218144
,
218145
,
220104
, and 220108, which are labeled by the same hand that filled in the
AMNH
type label, itself labeled at
AMNH
, and
AMNH 225201
, cataloged later and identified in yet a third hand
.
According to Beck’s unpublished Journal D (Archives, Dept. of Ornithology, AMNH), the
France
was anchored near Cape Hunter (ca.
09.49S
,
159.51E
) and the expedition personnel spent 20–28 July inland from there, reaching as high as
4000 ft.