Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris Mayr

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 148

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476053
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scientific name	Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris Mayr
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Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris Mayr View in CoL

Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris Mayr, 1932: 15 View in CoL (Epi Island, New Hebrides).

Now Glycifohia notabilis superciliaris ( Mayr, 1932) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 431, Bregulla, 1992: 243–244, Dickinson, 2003: 440, and Higgins et al., 2008: 631.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212878 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Epi Island , 16.43S, 168.15E ( USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 4 August 1926, by Virginia Correia. From the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21786). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and the range of superciliaris that included the following islands in Vanuatu, specimens from which are paratypes: Epi, AMNH 212879–212885 About AMNH , 212897–212902 About AMNH , 213634–213636 About AMNH , 221789 About AMNH (11 males, six females) ; Paama (5 Pauuma), AMNH 212886– 212896 About AMNH , 213637 About AMNH , 213638 About AMNH (six males, seven females) ; Ambrym , AMNH 216185–216194 About AMNH , 216206 About AMNH (three males, eight females) ; Malakula (5 Malekula), AMNH 213639–213645 About AMNH (five males, two females) ; Pentacose (5 Pentecost), AMNH 216195–216203 About AMNH , 218407 About AMNH (six males, four females) ; Maewo (5 Aurora), AMNH 218388–218392 About AMNH (three males, two females). Of these paratypes, the following were exchanged: AMNH 216202 About AMNH to J. Berlioz in October 1932 (presumably now in MNHN) ; AMNH 216185 About AMNH and 216187 to Cleveland Museum in January 1932 ; AMNH 216188 About AMNH to BBM in January 1932 ; AMNH 212900 About AMNH , 216189 About AMNH to ANSP ; AMNH 216191 About AMNH to USNM in January 1932 ; and AMNH 216193 About AMNH to ZMB in January 1932. The publication of superciliaris was in February 1932 ; presumably these exchanges were made after Mayr’s manuscript was completed.

Salomonsen (1967: 431) included this species in his large genus Phylidonyris , and this was followed by Bregulla (1992: 243– 244). Dickinson (2003: 439) used Mathews’ name Glycifohia , citing Wolters (1979: 260) and Boles and Longmore (1985), and this was followed by Higgins et al. (2008: 631).

References

Boles, W. E., and N. W. Longmore. 1985. Generic allocation of the Tawny-crowned Honeyeater. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 221 - 223.

Bregulla, H. L. 1992. Birds of Vanuatu. Oswestry, Shropshire, England: Anthony Nelson, 294 pp.

Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.

Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.

Mayr, E. 1932. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XVIII. Notes on Meliphagidae from Polynesia and the Solomon Islands. American Museum Novitates 516: 1 - 30.

Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.

Wolters, H. E. 1979. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Lieferung 4, Bogen 16 - 20: 241 - 320. Hamburg and Berlin: Paul Parey.

Abbreviations

AMNH	American Museum of Natural History
MNHN	Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
ZMB	Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)