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 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 .