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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
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Rhipidura rufifrons agilis
Mayr
Rhipidura rufifrons agilis
Mayr, 1931b: 17
(
Santa Cruz
Island,
Santa Cruz
Group).
Now
Rhipidura rufifrons agilis
Mayr, 1931
. See del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 231
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 217529
, adult male, collected on
Nendo
(
5
Santa Cruz) Island,
Santa Cruz Group
,
Solomon Islands
, on
24 February 1927
, by
Rollo H. Beck
,
Frederick P. Drowne
, and
Joe Hicks
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 24758).
COMMENTS
: The AMNH number of the
holotype
was cited in the original description. Mayr gave measurements of
20 specimens
.
Paratypes
are AMNH 213951, 213952, 215856, 215857, 217525–217528, 217530– 217539, and 223732. Of these, the following were exchanged: AMNH 213951 to ZMB on
8 January 1932
, AMNH 213952 to USNM in
January 1932
, AMNH 217526 to BBM on
21 January 1932
, AMNH 217532 to CM in
January 1932
, and AMNH 217535 to Cleveland Museum of Natural History on
6 January 1932
.
The Whitney Expedition ship
France
anchored in a bay south of Cape Byron (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives). Cape Byron is now known as Note Kanenggo,
10.41S
,
166.05E
(USBGN, 1974a).