Pachycephala pectoralis lauana Mayr

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 36

Pachycephala pectoralis lauana Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis lauana Mayr, 1932b: 12 (Ongea Levu Island, Lau Archipelago, Fiji Islands).

Now Pachycephala vitiensis lauana Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 204, Watling, 2001: 160– 161, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 252695 , adult male, collected on Ongea Levu Island , 19.08S, 178.24W ( USBGN, 1974), Lau Archipelago , Fiji, on 28 July 1924, by Jose Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 13201).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the subspecies as the southern Lau Archipelago : Ongea Levu, Vulaga (5 Fulanga), and Vuanggava (5 Wangava) islands. Paratypes are: Ongea Levu, AMNH 224022–224024 , 252675–252694 , 252696–252701 , and 252714– 252717 ; Vulaga , AMNH 252702 , 252703 ; Vuanggava, AMNH 252704–252713 and 252718–252728. Of these, AMNH 252677 and 252680 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936 ; I did not find AMNH 252685 , 252697 , and 252714 in the collection, and they may have been exchanged to other institutions without the catalog having been marked .

Galbraith (1956: 204), Watling (2001: 160– 161), and Boles (2007: 421) considered lauana a subspecies of P. pectoralis ; Dickinson (2003: 477) separated the Fijian group of populations as the species P. vitiensis .