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 brunneipectus
Mayr
Pachycephala pectoralis brunneipectus
Mayr, 1932b: 4
(Epi Island).
Now
Pachycephala caledonica intacta
Sharpe, 1900
.
See
Galbraith, 1956: 201
, 208,
Mayr, 1967: 28–29
,
Dickinson, 2003: 477
, and
Boles, 2007: 421
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 212778
, adult female, collected on
Epi Island
,
16.43S
,
168.15E
(
USBGN
, 1974),
Vanuatu
(
5
New Hebrides), on
5 August 1926
, by
Jose Correia
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 21813).
COMMENTS:
Mayr
cited the
AMNH
number of the
holotype
in the original description, and gave the range of the subspecies as
Mai
,
Tongariki
,
Epi
,
Lopevi
,
Pauuma
, and Ambrym islands in the
Epi Group
,
Vanuatu
.
The
paratypes
are:
Tongariki
,
AMNH 212726
;
Epi
,
AMNH 212727–212732
,
212774–212777
,
2
1 2 7 7 9–2 1 2 7 8 3
,
213679–213681
,
215990
,
216008
,
224035
;
Pauuma
,
AMNH 212733
,
212734
;
Ambrym
,
AMNH 212735
,
213682
;
Lopevi
,
AMNH 212738
,
212739
,
213677
,
213678
,
213716
,
213717
;
and
Mai
,
AMNH 212740–212745
.
AMNH 212732
and 212777 were exchanged to
ZMB
in
July 1936
. I did not find
AMNH
212729 in
the collection
.
Galbraith (1956: 201)
considered
brunneipectus
a synonym of
P. pectoralis chlorura
;
Mayr (1967: 128–129)
and
Boles (2007: 421)
listed it as a synonym of
P. pectoralis intacta
; and
Dickinson (2003: 477)
combined subspecies from the southern Santa Cruz islands to
New Caledonia
, including
intacta
, in the species
P. caledonica
.