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. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2008 2008-07-02 313 1 1 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1 journal article 10.1206/313.1 0003-0090 13223808 Petroica multicolor feminina Mayr Petroica multicolor feminina Mayr, 1934b: 8 (Mai Island, New Hebrides ). Now Petroica multicolor feminina Mayr, 1934 . See Bregulla, 1992: 225–227 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 212410 , adult male, collected on Emae ( 5 Mai) Island, 17.04S , 168.22E ( USBGN , 1974b), Sheperd Islands , Vanuatu , on 7 July 1926 , by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21360). COMMENTS : Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of six adult males (including the holotype ), five immature males, five adult females, and four immature females from Emae and Efate islands. The 19 paratypes are AMNH 212393, 212404– 212409, 212411–212418, and 212425–212428.