Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr, 1940

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 : 72

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630224
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1977-FF9A-689F-92C71DA6FE1A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr
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Cracticus cassicus hercules Mayr View in CoL

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

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

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 329975 About AMNH , 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). GoogleMaps

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 About AMNH , 224053 About AMNH , 329976–329978 About AMNH , two males, three females, 1–2 November 1928 ; Kitava , AMNH 224054–224058 About AMNH , 329979–329981 About AMNH , six males, two females, 10–30 October 1928 ; Kiriwina , AMNH 224059–224061 About AMNH , 329966– 329970 About AMNH , 673325 About AMNH , four males, five females, 6–8 November 1928, 15 February 1895 ; Fergusson , AMNH 224062 About AMNH , male, 14 November 1928, AMNH 329971–329974 About AMNH , 673323 About AMNH , 673324 About AMNH , four males, two females, 12–13 November 1928, 6, 19 September 1894 ; Goodenough , AMNH 673321 About AMNH , male, 4 April 1913, AMNH 673322 About AMNH , female, 17 December 1896. Of these paratypes, I did not find AMNH 224062 About AMNH and AMNH 329971 in the collection ; they were perhaps exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been so marked.