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 Dicaeum aeneum malaitae Salomonsen Dicaeum aeneum malaitae Salomonsen, 1960c: 34 ( Malaita , Solomon Islands ). Now Dicaeum aeneum malaitae Salomonsen, 1960 . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396 , and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 384–385 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 227420 , adult male, collected on Malaita Island , Solomon Islands , on 5 February 1930 , by William Coultas , Hannibal Hamlin , Walter Eyerdam , and Ernst Mayr on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39068). COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; the following specimens are paratypes : AMNH 227412–227419 , 227421– 227453 . On 5 February 1930 , the expedition vessel, France , was anchored at Su’u, 09.51S , 160.50E (USBGN, 1974), on Malaita (Coul- tas’ unpublished journal, vol. V, archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH).