Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Lecroy, Mary
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Pachycephala pectoralis tabarensis
Mayr
Pachycephala pectoralis tabarensis
Mayr, 1955: 35
(Tabar Island, Tabar group).
Now
Pachycephala citreogaster tabarensis
Mayr, 1955
.
See
Galbraith, 1956: 203
,
Coates, 1990: 209–211
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395
,
Dickinson, 2003: 477
, and
Boles, 2007: 421
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 335560
, adult female, collected on
Tabar Island
,
02.58S
,
152.07E
(Times Atlas),
Tabar Group
,
New Ireland Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
14 January 1935
, by
William F. Coultas
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 45262).
COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and gave measurements for
seven adult
males,
two adult
females, and
three immature
females. There are
seven male
and
four female
paratypes
:
AMNH 335552–335558
and
335559
,
335561–335563
, collected between
14 and 29 January 1935
. The Coultases base camp on Tabar was at Lumburu (Coultas, vol. Y, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH), ca.
02.57S
,
152.00E
.
Galbraith (1956: 203)
,
Coates (1990: 209– 211)
,
Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395)
, and
Boles (2007: 421)
considered
tabarensis
a subspecies of
P. pectoralis
;
Dickinson (2003: 477)
included
tabarensis
in
P. citreogaster
.