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
2008
2008-07-02
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Clytorhynchus vitiensis layardi
Mayr
Clytorhynchus vitiensis layardi
Mayr, 1933b: 9
(Taviuni Island,
Fiji Islands
).
Now
Clytorhynchus vitiensis layardi
Mayr, 1933
. See
Watling, 2001: 156
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 252357
, adult male,
collected on Taveuni (
5
Taviuni)
Island
, on
13 December 1924
, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 16176).
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was given in the original description. Mayr credited Beck and Correia as collectors of this type, but on the original label both names are crossed out and ‘‘Hicks’’ written in. Hicks was one of the crew of the expedition ship
France
who learned to make specimens.
Paratypes
from Taveuni Island are: AMNH 252341–252344, 252346, 252350–252356, 252358–252360, and 252381–252383. I did not
find AMNH
252343 and
252382 in
the collection, and it is possible that they were exchanged to other museums and not so marked in the catalog.
According to the unpublished journal of Jose Correia (AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives), on
13 December 1924
the
France
, the expedition vessel, was anchored off Somosomo,
16.46S
,
179.58W
(USBGN, 1974c).
Mayr (1933b: 9–11)
discussed in detail the nomenclatural history of the Taveuni form.