Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
2008
313
1
287
journal article
0003-0090
Rhipidura albina
Rothschild and Hartert
Rhipidura albina
Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 183
(Kulambangra)
.
Now
Rhipidura cockerelli albina
Rothschild and Hartert, 1901
. See
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 240
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 651725
, adult male, collected on
Kolombangara
(
5
Kulambangra) Island,
08.00S
,
157.10E
(Times Atlas),
Solomon Islands
, on
13 March 1901
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 2872).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS
: Rothschild and Hartert had the single specimen and noted that it had scattered white feathers in head and throat that were apparently aberrant.