Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr, 1942

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 : 32

Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis tutuilae Mayr, 1942: 2 (Tutuila Island, Samoa).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 206364 , adult male, collected on Tutuila Island , 14.20S, 170.40W, American Samoa, on 16 April 1924, by Jose Correia and Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12309).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as Tutuila Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 201358–201363, 202250– 202252, 206353–206363, 206365–206372, 224287, 20 males, 9 females, 22 October–30 November 1923, 19 January–14 February 1924, 16 April 1924. AMNH 206358 and 206363 were exchanged with DMNH and are now DMNH 18276 and 18275, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.).