Pachycephala pectoralis brunneipectus 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 : 35

Pachycephala pectoralis brunneipectus Mayr

Pachycephala pectoralis brunneipectus Mayr, 1932b: 4 (Epi Island).

Now Pachycephala caledonica intacta Sharpe, 1900 . See Galbraith, 1956: 201, 208, Mayr, 1967: 28–29, Dickinson, 2003: 477, and Boles, 2007: 421.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212778 , adult female, collected on Epi Island , 16.43S, 168.15E ( USBGN, 1974), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 5 August 1926, by Jose Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21813).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, and gave the range of the subspecies as Mai , Tongariki , Epi , Lopevi , Pauuma , and Ambrym islands in the Epi Group, Vanuatu. The paratypes are: Tongariki, AMNH 212726 ; Epi, AMNH 212727–212732 , 212774–212777 , 2 1 2 7 7 9–2 1 2 7 8 3, 213679–213681, 215990, 216008, 224035 ; Pauuma, AMNH 212733 , 212734 ; Ambrym, AMNH 212735 , 213682 ; Lopevi, AMNH 212738 , 212739 , 213677 , 213678 , 213716 , 213717 ; and Mai, AMNH 212740–212745 . AMNH 212732 and 212777 were exchanged to ZMB in July 1936. I did not find AMNH 212729 in the collection .

Galbraith (1956: 201) considered brunneipectus a synonym of P. pectoralis chlorura ; Mayr (1967: 128–129) and Boles (2007: 421) listed it as a synonym of P. pectoralis intacta ; and Dickinson (2003: 477) combined subspecies from the southern Santa Cruz islands to New Caledonia, including intacta, in the species P. caledonica .