Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:
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Pachycephala pectoralis efatensis
Mayr
Pachycephala pectoralis efatensis
Mayr, 1938a: 2
(Efate Island,
New Hebrides
).
Now
Pachycephala caledonica intacta
Sharpe, 1900
.
See
Galbraith, 1956: 201
,
Mayr, 1967: 28–29
,
Dickinson, 2003: 477
, and
Boles, 2007: 421
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 212746
, adult male, collected on
Efate Island
,
Vanuatu
(
5
New Hebrides), on
14 June 1926
, by
Rollo H. Beck
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 21068).
COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the
holotype
in the original description and the range of
efatensis
as Efate and Nguna islands,
Vanuatu
.
Mayr’s (1932b: 3– 6)
measurements of 29 Efate specimens included those that would later (
Mayr, 1938a: 2
) become part of his type series of
efatensis
.
Paratypes
are: Efate,
AMNH 212747–212773
,
214327
,
216000
,
224034
, and
224037
; Nguna,
AMNH 212736
and
212787
. Of these, I did not find 212748 and
212760 in
the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked. On
14 June 1926
, Beck was in Port Vila (Beck, unpublished journal D, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH),
17.44S
,
168.19E
(USBGN, 1974).
Galbraith (1956: 201)
considered
efatensis
a synonym of
P. pectoralis chlorura
;
Mayr (1967: 28–29)
recognized
chlorura
as a valid subspecies, but included
efatensis
as a synonym of
P. pectoralis intacta
, as did
Boles (2007: 421)
;
Dickinson (2003: 477)
included subspecies from the Santa Cruz Islands to
New Caledonia
, including
intacta
, in a separate species
Pachycephala caledonica
.