Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr, 1942: 3 (Boscawen Island, central Polynesia).

Now Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosa Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 78; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250787, adult male, collected on Tafahi (= Boscawen) Island, 15.52S, 173.55W (Times Atlas), Tonga, on 25 August 1925, by Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19151).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Tafahi (= Boscawen) and Niuatoputapu (= Keppel) islands. The following are paratypes: Tafahi, AMNH 224295, 250763–250784, 250786, 250788, 250788bis–250792, 12 males, 16 females, one sex?, 24–25 August 1925 ; Niuatoputapu, AMNH 250785, 250793–250803, 250806, five males, eight females, 25–26 August 1925. AMNH 250776 and 250788 were exchanged with DMNH and are numbered DMNH 18270 and 18269, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.). Joe Hicks was a crew member on the Whitney Expedition vessel, France, who learned to prepare specimens.