Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae Author Lecroy, Mary Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 2014-12-30 2014 393 1 165 journal article 7639 10.1206/885.1 48769858-fe3b-415b-9ac8-3feeb42a9bae 0003-0090 4629954 Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr, 1942: 3 (Boscawen Island, central Polynesia). Now Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosa Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 78 ; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274 ; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653 ; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 250787 , adult male, collected on Tafahi (= Boscawen) Island, 15.52S , 173.55W (Times Atlas ), Tonga , on 25 August 1925 , by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19151). COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Tafahi (= Boscawen) and Niuatoputapu (= Keppel) islands. The following are paratypes : Tafahi, AMNH 224295 , 250763–250784 , 250786 , 250788 , 250788 bis–250792 , 12 males , 16 females , one sex?, 24–25 August 1925 ; Niuatoputapu, AMNH 250785 , 250793–250803 , 250806 , five males, eight females, 25–26 August 1925 . AMNH 250776 and 250788 were exchanged with DMNH and are numbered DMNH 18270 and 18269, respectively ( J. Woods , personal commun.). Joe Hicks was a crew member on the Whitney Expedition vessel, France , who learned to prepare specimens .