Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr

Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr, 1940: 3 (Kaileuna Island, Trobriand Islands).

Now Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr, 1940 . See Mayr, 1941: 165; Amadon, 1962b: 284; Coates, 1990: 376–377; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 339.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 329975, adult male, collected on Kaileuna Island, 08.30S, 150.55E (Times Atlas), Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 2 November 1928, by Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 143).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype and included specimens from Kaileuna, Kitava, and Kiriwina islands in the Trobriands and Fergusson and Goodenough islands in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands . He gave measurements for 10 males and eight females from the Trobriands and five males and three females from the D’Entrecasteaux Islands, but additional specimens were available to him. The following specimens are paratypes of hercules: Kaileuna, AMNH 224052, 224053, 329976–329978, two males, three females, 1–2 November 1928 ; Kitava, AMNH 224054–224058, 329979–329981, six males, two females, 10–30 October 1928 ; Kiriwina, AMNH 224059–224061, 329966– 329970, 673325, four males, five females, 6–8 November 1928, 15 February 1895 ; Fergusson, AMNH 224062, male, 14 November 1928, AMNH 329971–329974, 673323, 673324, four males, two females, 12–13 November 1928, 6, 19 September 1894 ; Goodenough, AMNH 673321, male, 4 April 1913, AMNH 673322, female, 17 December 1896. Of these paratypes, I did not find AMNH 224062 and AMNH 329971 in the collection ; they were perhaps exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.