Pachycephala pectoralis pavuvu 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 : 32-33

Pachycephala pectoralis pavuvu Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis pavuvu Mayr, 1932a: 15 (Banika Island, Pavuvu or Russel [sic] group, British Solomon Islands).

Now Pachycephala orioloides pavuvu Mayr, 1932 . See Galbraith, 1956: 197, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 395, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218101 , adult female, collected on Mbanika (5 Banika) Island, 09.10S, 159.10E (Times Atlas), Russell Group, Solomon Islands, on 1 August 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 27161).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description and 40 specimens, including the type, were said to have been collected on Mbanika, Pavuvu, and Moie islands in the Russell Group. I found only 39 specimens cataloged from those three islands. The 38 paratypes are: AMNH 218095–218100, 2 1 8 1 0 2, 218103, 219934–219939, 222806– 2 2 2 8 1 5, and 222861–222874. Of these, AMNH 218103 was exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. There are two specimens of pavuvu from Keome Island in the Russell Group, but I do not consider them paratypes as this island was not mentioned as a locality in the original description. On Mbanika, the expedition schooner ‘‘ France ’’ was anchored at Lifola Plantation.

Galbraith (1956: 197) considered pavuvu a synonym of Pachycephala pectoralis orioloides, Mayr and Diamond (2001: 395) and Boles (2007: 421) recognized it as a valid subspecies of P. pectoralis , and Dickinson (2003: 477) included it as a valid subspecies of the Solomons species P. orioloides .