Aplonis tabuensis manuae Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis manuae Mayr, 1942: 1 (Tau, Manua Islands, American Samoa).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 202277, adult male, collected on Tau Island, 14.15S, 169.27W (Times Atlas), Manua Islands, American Samoa, on 21 December 1923, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 10878).

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as the Manua Islands of Ofu, Olosega and Tau. Paratypes are: Olosega (= Olosinga, as on label), AMNH 202227–202249, 11 males, 11 females, 1 sex?, 31 December 1923–7 January 1924 ; Ofu Island, AMNH 202253–202266, nine males, five females, 7–9 January 1924 ; Tau Island, AMNH 202267–202276, 202278– 202313, 224288, 25 males, 22 females, 14–29 December 1923. Of these AMNH 202267 was sent to BBM in 1932; AMNH 202292 and 202298 were exchanged with DMNH and are now numbered DMNH 18274 and 18273, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.).