Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr, 1932

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Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr

Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr, 1932: 3 (Viti Levu Island, Fiji Islands).

Now Gymnomyza viridis brunneirostris ( Mayr, 1932) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 423, Watling, 2001: 174, and Higgins et al., 2008: 670.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 253450 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Viti Levu Island , Fiji, on 5 May 1925, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 17855).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of adult and juvenile males and adult and juvenile females, saying that his specimens had been collected in June and December 1924 and in March , May , and October 1925. The following specimens are paratypes: Viti Levu, June 1924, AMNH 206660 About AMNH , male, AMNH 206661 About AMNH , female ; December 1924, AMNH 221785 About AMNH , male ; March 1925, AMNH 253447 About AMNH , 253448 About AMNH , males ; May 1925, AMNH 253449 About AMNH , male, AMNH 253451 About AMNH , 253452 About AMNH , females, AMNH 253453 About AMNH , male, AMNH 253454–253457 About AMNH , females, AMNH 253458 About AMNH , 253459 About AMNH , males, AMNH 253460 About AMNH , 253461 About AMNH , females, AMNH 253462 About AMNH , 253463 About AMNH , males ; October 1925, AMNH 254012 About AMNH , 254013 About AMNH , males, AMNH 254014 About AMNH , female ; March 1925, AMNH 254015 About AMNH , 254016 About AMNH , males ; May 1925, AMNH 254017–254019 About AMNH , females (14 males and 13 females). Of these, the following have been exchanged: AMNH 253448 About AMNH to BBM in January 1932 ; AMNH 253457 About AMNH to ZMUC in May 1959 ; AMNH 253459 About AMNH to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 253461 About AMNH to CM in January 1932 ; AMNH 254016 About AMNH to ZIUS in December 1931 ; AMNH 254018 About AMNH to Cleveland Museum in January 1932 ; AMNH 254019 About AMNH to USNM in January 1932. AMNH 253462 About AMNH was mounted for display in the Fiji diorama at AMNH ; I did not find AMNH 253449 and it may have been exchanged without the catalog having been so marked. A. v. brunneirostris was published in February 1932, and the above specimens presumably were not exchanged until after the manuscript for the description was completed by Mayr.

References

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.

Watling, D. 2001. A guide to the birds of Fiji and western Polynesia, including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. Suva, Fiji: Environmental Consultants, 272 pp.

Abbreviations

AMNH	American Museum of Natural History
ZMUC	Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen
ZMB	Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)
CM	Chongqing Museum
ZIUS	Zoologisches Institute der Universitat
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History