Aplonis tabuensis pachyrhamphus 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 : 31

Aplonis tabuensis pachyrhamphus Mayr

Aplonis tabuensis pachyrhamphus Mayr, 1942: 5 (Lomlom Island, Reef Islands).

Now Aplonis tabuensis pachyrhampha Mayr, 1942 . See Amadon, 1962a: 77; Dickinson, 2003: 652– 653; Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 216328 , adult male, collected on Lomlom Island , Reef Islets , 13.35S, 167.30E (Times Atlas), Banks Islands, Torba Province, Vanuatu, on 12 October 1926, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 23343).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and included specimens from the Swallow Isets (Nepani and Matema) and Tinakula Island in the Santa Cruz Islands, as well as specimens from Lomlom in the Banks Islands. This subspecies is usually cited as being from the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, but the type locality is in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu.

Paratypes in AMNH: Lomlom, AMNH 214451–214456, 216317–216327, 216329– 216338, 224286, 21 males, seven females, 6– 14 October 1926; Nepani, AMNH 214450, 214457–214459, 216339–216346, four males, eight females, 14–15 October 1926; Tinakula, AMNH 218479–218490, seven males, five females, 2–4 March 1927. The specimens included by Mayr in pachyrhampha from Matema Island, collected by the 1933 Templeton Crocker Expedition, are in CAS (J. Dumbacher, personal commun.). This expedition on Templeton Crocker’s yacht Zaca was made in the interest of the CAS ( Davidson, 1934) and should not be confused with the 1934–1935 expedition on Templeton Crocker’s Zaca in the interest of AMNH ( Chapin, 1935, 1936a, 1936b).