Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4612202
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scientific name	Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr
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Aplonis tabuensis tenebrosus Mayr, 1942: 3 (Boscawen Island, central Polynesia).

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250787 About AMNH , 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). GoogleMaps

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 About AMNH , 250763–250784 About AMNH , 250786 About AMNH , 250788 About AMNH , 250788 About AMNH bis–250792, 12 males, 16 females, one sex?, 24–25 August 1925 ; Niuatoputapu, AMNH 250785 About AMNH , 250793–250803 About AMNH , 250806 About AMNH , five males, eight females, 25–26 August 1925. AMNH 250776 About AMNH and 250788 were exchanged with DMNH and are numbered DMNH 18270 About DMNH and 18269, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.). Joe Hicks was a crew member on the Whitney Expedition vessel, France, who learned to prepare specimens .