Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes: Author Pachycephalidae Author Aegithalidae Author Remizidae Author Paridae Author Sittidae Author Neosittidae Author Certhiidae Author Rhabdornithidae Author Climacteridae Author Dicaeidae Author Pardalotidae Author Nectariniidae, And Author Lecroy, Mary Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org) text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 2010-06-03 2010 333 1 178 journal article 0003-0090 Pachycephala melanonota Hartert Pachycephala melanonota Hartert, 1908: 106 (Vella Lavella I., Central Group of the Solomon Islands ). Now Pachycephala orioloides melanonota Hartert, 1908 . See Galbraith, 1956: 197 , Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395 , Dickinson, 2003: 477 , and Boles, 2007: 421 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 658153 , adult male, collected on Vella Lavella Island , 07.45S , 156.40E ( USBGN , 1974), Solomon Islands , on 23 February 1908 , by collectors for A.S. Meek (no. 3834). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Hartert cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description; Rothschild and Hartert (1908: 358) listed the specimens in Meek’s collection, giving his field numbers. The following seven specimens are paratypes : AMNH 658154 (Meek no. 3897), male ; AMNH 658155 (3846), male ; AMNH 658156 (3896), sexed as a male but considered a female juv. by Rothschild and Hartert ; AMNH 658157 (3946), male ; AMNH 658158 (3964), female ; AMNH 658159 (3953), sexed as a female but considered a male juv. by Rothschild and Hartert ; and AMNH 658160 (3765), female. Rothschild and Hartert (1908 : pl. 13) illustrated the adult male of melanonota . Galbraith (1956: 197) , Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395) , and Boles (2007: 421) considered melanonota a subspecies of P. pectoralis ; Dickinson (2003: 477) included melanonota in a Solomon Islands species, P. orioloides , in the pectoralis complex.