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
Mayrornis lessoni orientalis
Mayr
Mayrornis lessoni orientalis
Mayr, 1933c: 18
(Yangasa Cluster, eastern
Fiji Islands
).
Now
Mayrornis lessoni orientalis
Mayr, 1933
. See
Watling, 2001:154
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AMNH 251318
, adult male, collected in the Yangasa Cluster,
18.57S
,
178.28W
(
USBGN
, 1974c),
Fiji
, on
8 August 1924
, by
Rollo H. Beck
and
Jose G. Correia
on the
Whitney
South Sea Expedition
(no. 13598).
COMMENTS
:
The
AMNH
number of the
holotype
was given in the original description.
Paratypes
are specimens collected by the
Whitney Expedition
on the eastern
Fiji islands
of
Ongea Levu
,
Yangasa Cluster
,
Namuka
ilau,
Marambo
,
Kambara
,
Wangava
,
Mothe
,
Oneata
,
Aiwa
,
Vanua
vatu,
Thithia
,
Vatu
vara,
Mango
,
Explorers Islands
,
Naitamba
, and
Moala
:
AMNH 206522–206541
,
206544
,
224392
,
224393
,
251201–251219
bis, 251308–251317, and 251319–251413.
AMNH 251315
,
251321
, and 251389 were exchanged to
ZMB
in
July 1936
;
AMNH 251365
and 251402 were exchanged to
ANSP
. I did not
find ANMH
251327, 251331, 251337, 251339, 251354, and 251369. These were probably exchanged to other museums without the catalog having been so marked
.