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 Rhipidura cockerelli floridana Mayr Rhipidura cockerelli floridana Mayr, 1931b: 4 (Tulagi Island). Now Rhipidura cockerelli floridana Mayr, 1931 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392 , and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 240 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 217646 , adult male, collected on Tulagi Island , 09.06S , 160.08E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands , on 23 May 1927 , by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26382). COMMENTS : Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that his type series included a male from Tulagi and a male and a female from Florida Island. The two Florida Island paratypes are: AMNH 217644 and 217645.