Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 33-34

Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr

Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931b: 21 (Guadalcanar Island ( British Solomon Islands)).

Now Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931 . See Amadon, 1962a: 81; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 400; Dickinson, 2003: 652; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 719.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218560 , adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (= Guadalcanar) Island, Solomon Islands (= British Solomon Islands), on 23 July 1927, by Rollo H. Beck and Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26862).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 218552–218559, 223185–223195, 223207–223218, 17 males, 14 females, 16–25 April, 17–30 May, and 12–25 July 1927. On 23 July 1927, the expedition ship France was anchored near Cape Hunter and personnel had gone east to the Itina River, 09.48S, 159.51 E (USBGN, 1974a), from the mouth of which they collected up to 4000 feet.